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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: Revenge of the Germs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country sought to improve its own infrastructures with little funding, relying instead on education?
(a) Tanzania.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) The Soviet Union.
(d) Mexico.

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) 1999.
(d) 1982.

3. According to the author in Chapter 13, what were vital to cell transformation?
(a) Amino acids.
(b) Antiviral cascades.
(c) Protein inhibitors.
(d) Plasmids and transposons.

4. Who was treating Bernhard Mandrella for the Lassa virus when he met Kent Campbell?
(a) David Sencer.
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Jay Butler.
(d) Al Wieden.

5. What disease did children with malaria contract after being required to have nearly complete blood transfusions?
(a) Measles.
(b) HIV.
(c) Schistosomiasis.
(d) Junin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MRSA stand for?

2. What does PID refer to?

3. Where did Uwe Brinkmann go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?

4. The Aswan High Dam is an embankment dam situated across what river?

5. After the woman that researchers tracked the outbreak of the Lassa virus to had been hospitalized, how many people became ill in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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