Answer Key

What do the following phrases mean?

You answered 0 of 5 questions correctly in this part of the test.

  1. "A hospital worker "nipped" the girl's baby toe" means:  [the worker cut it]
  2. "Amirona Simmons was about to be released" means: [the doctors wanted to let her go home]
  3. "It healed properly" means:  [it got better]
  4. "A very unfortunate accident" means:  [nobody wanted to do it]
  5. "We're evaluating the course of action of what happened" means:  [we are trying to find out what happened]
Are the following statements about the text correct?

You answered 0 of 5 questions correctly in this part of the test.

1.   The worker cut off only a little part of the toe.That is correct.

2.   The baby is now without one toe.That is incorrect. Correct is: The doctors reattached it

3.   The hospital did not apologize.That is incorrect. Correct is: They did apologize

4.   The baby was born without a toe.That is incorrect. Correct is: An employee cut it off after it was born

5.   The hospital worker wanted to cut the toe off.That is incorrect. Correct is: It was an accident