Question

Epidemiology’s Fight Against Ebola
by Carol Hand

Emile was a two-year-old boy living in Meliandou, a village in the West African nation of Guinea. In December 2013, Emile may have been bitten by a fruit bat, a common animal in West Africa. On December 26, he became ill. He died two days later. By January 14, his three-year-old sister, his mother, and his grandmother had also died. No one yet realized it, but researchers now believe Emile was patient zero—the first person to contract and begin spreading the Ebola virus during this outbreak. There have been more than two dozen Ebola outbreaks since the virus’s discovery in 1976. The 2014 outbreak quickly became by far the most devastating.



Excerpt from Epidemiology: The Fight Against Ebola & Other Diseases by Carol Hand published by ABDO Publishing © 2015 ABDO Consulting Group, Inc.

Question
Use the passage to answer the question.

What technique does the writer use to engage readers in this introductory paragraph?

(1 point)
Responses

using a vivid image or description
using a vivid image or description

telling an interesting or surprising fact
telling an interesting or surprising fact

using a connection to the readers’ experiences

Answer 1

using a vivid image or description

The paragraph opens with a specific, emotional scene (the two-year-old Emile, the village, the bat bite, illness and deaths) to draw readers in.