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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: Thirdworldization.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 13: "Revenge of the Germs," by what year were many viruses resistant to antibiotics, including the staph infection?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1999.

3. Where did Uwe Brinkmann go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?
(a) Hamburg, Germany.
(b) Sussex, England.
(c) Marburg, Germany.
(d) Warsaw, Poland.

4. Jordi Casals proved that the Lassa virus was spread through ______________.
(a) Ants.
(b) Rodents.
(c) Cats.
(d) Roaches.

5. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?
(a) 1960's.
(b) 1970's.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1950's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of an uncle named ___________.

2. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. What does AIDS stand for?

4. What does the acronym WHO stand for?

5. Who discovered that the flu lived harmlessly in pig mucus, and thus, dubbed the new virus swine flu?

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