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Question 1

A good title for this selection is

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Surviving Medical School, A Teacher's Life, Making a Promise, The First Woman Doctor

Question 2

What is the letter mostly about?

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the life of Elizabeth Blackwell, an early death of a good friend, women's job choices in the 1800s, getting into medical school

Question 3

Elizabeth Blackwell came to the United States at the age of

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11, 29, 24, 6

Question 4

Which of these happened first?

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Blackwell entered Geneva Medical College, Blackwell taught to earn money for medical school, Blackwell opened a women's clinic, Blackwell got turned down by 28 medical schools

Question 5

You can tell the sequence in the letter mostly by

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looking for clues that tell about date and time, finding facts and details, thinking about the main idea, thinking about the beginning, the middle, and the ending

Question 6

Who first inspired Elizabeth Blackwell to become a doctor?

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her father, a dying friend, the teachers at Geneva Medical College, Samuel Dickson

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