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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: American Bicentennial.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
(a) Laurie Garrett
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Johnathan Mann.
(d) Fred Murphy.

2. When was penicillin first discovered?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1928.

3. DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called ____________.
(a) Genes.
(b) Nucleotides.
(c) Antibodies.
(d) Microbes.

4. Legionnaires' disease acquired its name when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention in what city?
(a) Detroit, MI.
(b) Philadelphia, PA.
(c) Chicago, IL.
(d) Denver, CO.

5. Where was Lily Pinneo flown after contracting the Lassa virus?
(a) New York.
(b) North Dakota.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) Nevada.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?

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

3. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the study of parasites and tropical disease waned because in post-WWII health care, there was a shift to eradicate __________ from the planet.

4. What refers to the disease fighting white blood cells that help the immune system fight off infection?

5. Laurie Garrett earned her undergraduate degree in biology from what institution?

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