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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1970.

2. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?
(a) Deoxyribonucleic acid.
(b) Deterioration of nerve acid.
(c) Dental nerve activity.
(d) Destructive neurological action.

3. After the woman that researchers tracked the outbreak of the Lassa virus to had been hospitalized, how many people became ill in Chapter 4?
(a) 29.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 16.

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) 1991.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1969.

5. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Karl Johnson.
(b) Al Wieden.
(c) Peter Piot.
(d) Harold Jaffe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Jeanette Troup was working in _____________ when an outbreak of the Lassa virus occurred.

2. The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in what year?

3. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

4. In the beginning of Chapter 5: "Yambuku," the author describes a man in Yambuku who was treated for an illness like _____________.

5. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

(see the answer key)

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