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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) Lagos.
(c) Bogata.
(d) Quito.

2. In what year did a type of swine flu strike in Texas simultaneously with another less deadly strain?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1776.

3. 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) Jordi Casals.
(c) Merl Kuns.
(d) Don Francis.

4. Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets" explains that prior to ___________ large cities were rare, and most of the illness threats were parasitic.
(a) 1500 A.D.
(b) 500 A.D.
(c) 6000 B.C.
(d) 2000 B.C.

5. In what year was Karl Johnson in Panama when his friend, Ron MacKenzie, headed to Bolivia to investigate a disease, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1949.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

2. What leader in infectious disease was called in to test the deadly virus against samples of thousands of viruses in his lab in Chapter 3: "Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides"?

3. Legionnaires' disease acquired its name when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention in what city?

4. Yambuku is a small village in the Mongala District of what current country?

5. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.

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