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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Microbe Magnets and Chapter 10: Distant Thunder.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the CDC was being berated since how many elderly individuals died following their vaccinations for swine flu?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 14.
(d) 3.

2. What was the name of Karl Johnson's fiancee who became ill after visiting him in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Lily Pinneo.
(b) Pat Webb.
(c) Wilma Randolph.
(d) Selman Waksman.

3. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?
(a) Bolivian hemorrhagic fever.
(b) Pneumocystis pneumonia.
(c) Schistosomiasis.
(d) Yellow fever.

4. Within how much time was the virus now called Manchupo virus eradicated after Karl Johnson's team discovered the culprit of the epidemic in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 12 days.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 1 year.

5. What concept stated that as nations moved out of poverty and basic needs were met, scientists could use pharmaceutical and chemical tools to wipe out parasites, bacteria, and viruses?
(a) Healthy Investments.
(b) The Health Transition.
(c) The Wealthy Cleansing.
(d) Banking on Doctors.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.

2. What expert of viruses at WHO was dispatched to Maridi to gather samples in Chapter 5: "Yambuku"?

3. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?

4. When was the term antibiotic first coined?

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

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