What does the word regret mean?
to feel sad or sorry about...
What is the name of one character in the text "Yellow Fever"
Dr. Reed
Dr. Lazear
Dr. Carrol
Dr. Agromonte
What is another name for a disease?
A sickness or illness.
The USS Sedgwick lurched, and Major Walter Reed, M.D., promptly threw up.
Chapter 2
What is the fastest land animal?
Cheetah
What does the word rejoice mean?
feel or show great joy or delight.
What did Dr. Lazear take care of "like an infant"?
His mosquitos.
What is the name of the disease we are reading about?
Yellow fever
There the news was good. Kean’s case was fairly mild. He was expected to live.
Chapter 3
Name a mammal that can't jump.
Elephant, sloth, hippo, rhino
What does the word experiment mean?
a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.
Who allowed Dr. Carrol to be bitten by a mosquito?
Dr. Lazear
By a mosquito bite.
The sun was warm. The sea was blue. The orange juice, black coffee, and dry toast had stayed down.
Chapter 3
How many legs does a lobster have?
10
What doe the word anxiously mean?
in a manner resulting from or revealing un easiness.
Chapter 7 was mainly about what character?
Dr. Lazear.
In the text Yellow fever what was immune to yellow fever?
Animals
And that was a problem. As far as the team knew, animals didn’t get yellow fever. That meant the infected mosquitoes would have to bite a group of people.
Chapter 6
What is the sweet food made by bees?
Honey
What does the word exposed mean.
not covered or hidden; visible.
Who personified yellow fever in the famous cartoon depicted in the yellow fever text.
Yellow Jack
What "crop" of mosquitos had doctor Finlay raised for his experiments?
Aedes aegypti
But it wasn’t that easy. Some eggs just floated on the water and didn’t hatch. Some insects died before they were completely grown up. Others dropped dead almost as soon as they became adults. Still, Lazear didn’t give up. He tended his mosquitoes as if they were babies. Each day, he checked the progress of his little group. He made sure the adult insects were fed sweetened water and bits of banana
Chapter 7
In what country did the first Starbucks open outside of North America?
Japan