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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Machupo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?
(a) The Chicago Sun Times.
(b) Newsday.
(c) USA Today.
(d) The LA Times.

2. When was the CDC founded?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1867.

3. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to what Scottish scientist?
(a) Fred Murphy.
(b) Harold Jaffe.
(c) Friedrich Miescher.
(d) Alexander Fleming.

4. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1969.

5. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.
(a) Pain killers.
(b) Fluids.
(c) Antibiotics.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?

2. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. When was penicillin first discovered?

4. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?

5. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.

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