Code Orange Active Reading Questions. Answering the following questions as you read will help you better understand the novel and the ... Chapters 6 &...
Code Orange Active Reading Questions Answering the following questions as you read will help you better understand the novel and the implications of Mitty’s decisions. These questions with your responses (in complete sentences) are due the first day of school and are your first grade for English II. They are worth two points each (sixty points total). Half credit is the most you may receive after the first day. Chapters 1 & 2 1. Why does Mitty think books, especially science books, are useless?
2. Who is Ottilie Lundgren? Why is Derek interested in her?
3. Where is Olivia doing her research? What is her topic?
4. What does Mitty do with the smallpox scabs?
5. What does Mitty learn about variola major on the CDC website?
6. After how many days will a person infected with variola major be infectious to other people?
Chapters 3-5 7. What happens on February 3, 2004?
8. What puzzles Mitty about the 1902 Boston epidemic of smallpox?
9. How is Mitty like the 1902 smallpox victims?
10. Who is Edward Jenner?
11. Where are the remaining samples of smallpox virus?
Chapters 6 & 7 12. Infer why Mitty tells himself the envelope isn’t important.
13. Why do some scientists want to destroy the smallpox virus, while others want to keep samples of the virus?
14. Why would smallpox spread faster today than in the past?
Chapters 8 & 9 15. Why does the U.S. government have a large supply of smallpox vaccine?
16. Why won’t a vaccine help Mitty?
17. Why doesn’t Mitty email the CDC?
18. What organizations might locate Mitty as a result of his emails?
Chapters 10 & 11 19. How were the 1969 German and 1970 English smallpox victims treated?
20. What about smallpox frightens Mitty the most?
21. What does Mitty believe about suicide?
Chapters 12 & 13 22. How does Olivia justify her theory that the FBI are looking for Mitty to stop a smallpox epidemic?
23. What is Derek’s theory regarding the FBI’s and CDC’s interest in Mitty?
Chapters 14 & 15 24. What does the FBI ask of Derek and Olivia?
25. Infer why Mitty’s disappearance goes unreported on the news based on what you have read.
26. Why does Mitty expect the terrorists to have glitches in their plans?
Chapters 16 & 17 27. How does Mitty fool the terrorists?
28. Why won’t the terrorist’s key open the basement door?
29. Why does Mitty think his plan will fail once the terrorists’ cell phone rings?
