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Chapter 4 Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does it mean if someone or something is asymptomatic?

a)

a person who has a disease/infection

b)

a person who has a disease/infection and doesn't show symptoms

c)

a person who doesn't have a disease/infection and doesn't show symptoms

d)

a person who has a disease/infection and shows symptoms

2.

What does discreet mean?

a)

loudly

b)

suspiciously

c)

quietly

d)

A noisy toy that makes a lot of noise.

3.

What does "scolding" mean?

a)

to censure usually severely or angrily

b)

to pour hot water onto something/someone

c)

to take out or up with or as if with a scoop

d)

approve or praise

4.

Why was the Warren family ashamed to have caught typhoid? (page 74)

a)

it was a disease that, before this, infected lower class citizens

b)

it was a disease that, before this, infected upper class citizens

c)

it was a disease that, before this, infected only americans

d)

it was a disease that, before this, infected only new yorkers

5.

What does elaborate mean?

a)

to make more clear or explicit

b)

to understand thoroughly

c)

to make something more prepared

d)

planned or carried out with great care

6.

What year did Mary die? (page 84)

a)

1938

b)

1928

c)

1937

d)

1927

7.

What does whisked mean?

a)

small hairs on the face of a cat

b)

to take or move (someone or something) in a particular direction suddenly and quickly.

c)

to remove someone from an email

d)

a kitchen utensil

8.

What is hygiene?

a)

conditions or practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease

b)

an element on the periodic table

c)

a dental assistant

d)

the definition of a germ

9.

What is a reputation?

a)

a mood or feeling

b)

the belief that one group is better than another

c)

the beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something.

d)

someones social class

10.

What do epidemiologists do?

a)

Study elements

b)

study people

c)

study diseases

d)

study only cholera

11.

Who is the author of Patient Zero?

a)

Marilee Peter

b)

Marilee Peters

12.

Typhoid in New York began in the year (a)   .

13.

What does contaminate mean?

a)

to change one thing and make it into another

b)

make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.

c)

to make something irrelevant

d)

to make something different than it originally was

14.

What is an outbreak?

a)

the sudden or prolonged start of something welcome, such as peace or prosperity

b)

the sudden or violent start of something positive

c)

the sudden or violent start of a science experiment

d)

the sudden or violent start of something unwelcome, such as war, disease, etc.

15.

What does exception mean?

a)

Exception means an event that is considered part of the usual course of events.

b)

Exception means a situation that is the same from the norm.

c)

a person or thing that is excluded from a general statement or does not follow a rule.

d)

Exception means an opportunity to do something that you might not be able to do normally.

16.

What does eager mean?

a)

when someone does not want to do something

b)

when someone is excited

c)

dreading to do something

d)

wanting to do something

17.

Reorder the following moments from Patient Zero from first to last.

a)

George Soper discovers that Mary carried typhoid and other diseases

b)

Two Warren Sisters fall ill

c)

George Thomas hires George Soper to investigate the illnesses

d)

Mary is quarantined

1)
2)
3)
4)
18.

True or False: Mary died in quarantine (page 84)

a)

True

b)

False

19.

What does elude mean?

a)

to evade or escape something

b)

to call upon something

c)

to reference something

d)

to run from something

20.

Draw what Mary looks like to you!