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Diseases

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    Disease lesson comprehension quiz for middle school students
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  • What part of the body does Tuberculosis affect?
    The lungs
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  • What is one of the nicknames for Tuberculosis?
    The White Death, Consumption
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  • In what year was the cure for Tuberculosis (Streptomycin) invented? 1958, 1944, or 1921?
    1944
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  • What do you ALWAYS do with antibiotics?
    Finish them!
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  • The Miasma theory stated that ______ caused disease?
    Bad air
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  • What was the name of the trade route through which the Plague arrived in Europe?
    The Silk Road
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  • About what percentage of Native people in the New World died as a result of the Columbian Exchange?
    90%
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  • Name one famous disease outbreak in world history.
    The Black/White Death, COVID-19, The Spanish Flu, The Great Dying, HIV/AIDs....
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  • The famous Plague Doctor outfit was actually used in what century? 13th, 17th, or 18th?
    The 17th Century
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  • What economic movement caused the perfect conditions for the Tuberculosis outbreak?
    The Industrial Revolution
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  • The Black Plague was spread by which animals?
    Fleas on rats
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  • The Smallpox and Tuberculosis vaccines were developed thanks to observations of what animal?
    Cows
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  • Tuberculosis is really good at evolving _______ to antibiotics
    Resistance
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  • True or false: Tuberculosis was considered fashionable in the 1800s.
    True
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  • Conflict and _______ make a civilization more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.
    Trade
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  • Name one effect of the Black Plague in Europe.
    Better worker treatment, higher wages, religious skepticism, mass death
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