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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Health Transition and Chapter 3: Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.
(a) HIV.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Swine Flu.
(d) The Black Typhus.

3. What was the name of Karl Johnson's fiancee who became ill after visiting him in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Wilma Randolph.
(b) Lily Pinneo.
(c) Selman Waksman.
(d) Pat Webb.

4. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?
(a) Sussex, England.
(b) Sydney, Australia.
(c) Marburg, Germany.
(d) Toronto, Canada.

5. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?
(a) Selman Waksman.
(b) Steven Lyman.
(c) Roger Jamsek.
(d) Gerald Kimbel.

Short Answer Questions

1. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.

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

3. What leader in infectious disease was called in to test the deadly virus against samples of thousands of viruses in his lab in Chapter 3: "Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides"?

4. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?

5. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.

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