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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. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Magdalena.
(b) Bogata.
(c) Lagos.
(d) Quito.

2. In Chapter 10: "Distant Thunder," the author writes that Harvey Milk was assassinated in what year?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1949.

3. Yambuku is a small village in the Mongala District of what current country?
(a) Uganda.
(b) South Sudan.
(c) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(d) Zaire.

4. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Peter Piot.
(b) Merl Kuns.
(c) Jordi Casals.
(d) Don Francis.

5. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Roach feces.
(b) Mouse urine.
(c) Owl droppings.
(d) Bed bugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking?

2. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?

3. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.

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

5. What, along with other chemicals, was used to eradicate the mosquito causing an increase in sand flies?

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