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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?
(a) Selman Waksman.
(b) Joel Breman.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Johnathan Mann.

2. German authorities began to argue with the authorities of ___________ over the Lassa virus in Chapter 4.
(a) Italy.
(b) Poland.
(c) France.
(d) England.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kent Campbell began testing whom for the Lassa virus in Chapter 4?

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

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

4. When was penicillin first discovered?

5. In Chapter 4: "Into the Woods," the author writes that Uwe Brinkmann, Bernhard Mandrella, Adam Cargill, and three nurses were taken to an isolated facility in which location?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Lily Pinneo exposed to the Lassa virus? Where was she sent after being infected?

2. What did the Centers for Disease Control do upon learning of the Ebola epidemic?

3. What did the World Health Organization discover to be the source of the Marburg disease? Who was called in for further research?

4. How does the author describe the initial outbreak of Marburg disease? What were the symptoms of the disease?

5. What was the CDC's response to the swine flu epidemic? What resistance was met?

6. What led to the wane of study on parasitic disease? What discoveries were changing the way scientists viewed infectious viruses?

7. In Chapter 4, who was transported to Germany following infection of the Lassa virus?

8. Where did Mandrella, Cargill, and Brinkmann go after being quarantined?

9. What caused the overpopulation of field mice in San Joaquin?

10. What led to the death of Dr. Troup? Where was the source of the virus determined to be from?

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