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Task # 1: Clarify its meaning by providing definitions of the key terms or words. (three sentence limit - statement quote not included in this limit) 

Example: "Cholera kills people fast." (Text: Pandemic, Introduction, p. 3)

Clarification: It means that cholera infection could lead to death within hours or a day. The key term "cholera" refers to "an acute diarrheal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae" (Source: World Health Organization). The term "quickly" must be understood in terms of hours or a day.

Task # 2:  Quote the reason or evidence given in the text for the sentence chosen. Please give text, chapter/maxim, and page references.

Clarify its meaning by providing definitions of the key terms or words. (three sentence limit - reason/evidence quote not included in this limit)

Example: Reason/evidence: "Then half a day passes, and cholera has drained his or her body of its fluids, leaving a withered blue corpse." (Text: Pandemic, Introduction, p. 3)

Clarification: 

In about half a day after a person is infected with cholera, it drains his or her body of its fluids and leaves behind "a withered blue corpse".

The key term is "body fluid". It refers to liquids within the body.

Task # 3: Explain in not more than three sentences how the reason/evidence actually supports or backs up the main statement. Please do not repeat the reason or evidence, but show that it supports the main statement.

First, paraphrase and repeat the main statement and the reason/evidence. Each must be stated in one sentence (not included in the three sentence limit).

Example:

Main statement: Cholera kills people quickly.

Reason or evidence: In about half a day after a person is infected with cholera, it drains his or her body of its fluids and leaves behind "a withered blue corpse".

Explanation: One day is a short duration in the advance of a disease. If cholera can kill its victims in a day, then it certainly kills quickly.