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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.
(a) Measles.
(b) Schistosomiasis.
(c) The Black Typhus.
(d) Malaria.

2. When was the term antibiotic first coined?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1966.

3. Peter Piot at CDC processed the samples sent to him in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," and tests showed the virus was neither ________________ nor anything else they had seen.
(a) Malaria.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Measles.
(d) Dengue fever.

4. The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in what year?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1960.

5. In Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the author writes that the influenza virus developed mutation strategies that made ___________ nearly impossible.
(a) Infections.
(b) Antibodies.
(c) Isolation.
(d) Pandemics.

6. 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.

7. What refers to compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often disease?
(a) Extermination.
(b) Arbitration.
(c) Quarantine.
(d) Contingency.

8. 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.
(a) Microbes.
(b) Cats.
(c) Rats.
(d) Monkeys.

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

10. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.
(a) Disease.
(b) Antivirals.
(c) Mutations.
(d) Antibodies.

11. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Cats.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Mouse traps.
(d) Snakes.

12. Following Kent Campbell's recovery, he was sent to investigate the Lassa outbreak in ______________.
(a) Poland.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Germany.

13. What does the acronym WHO stand for?
(a) World Health Organization.
(b) Wholesome and Holistic Outlook.
(c) Women's Health Operation.
(d) Wellness and Health Organization.

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

15. In the beginning of Chapter 5: "Yambuku," the author describes a man in Yambuku who was treated for an illness like _____________.
(a) Swine Flu.
(b) Measles.
(c) Junin.
(d) Malaria.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bernhard Mandrella went in for treatment for the Lassa virus, he was given blood from whom?

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

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

4. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?

5. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.

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