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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. Joe McCormick was dispatched to what location to investigate the epidemic of the Ebola virus?
(a) Lusaka.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Lagos.
(d) Kinshasa.

2. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?
(a) Joe McCormick.
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Friedrich Miescher.
(d) Alexander Fleming.

3. Soon after the first outbreak described in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," another outbreak was seen at the hospital in what location?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Lusaka.
(c) Monrovia.
(d) Kinshasha.

4. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.
(a) The Black Typhus.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Swine Flu.
(d) HIV.

5. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?
(a) Ribonucleic acid.
(b) Reflexive neurological antibodies.
(c) Richmond Nutrition Association.
(d) Regenerative nerve action.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Great Plague of London killed approximately how many people?

2. Who discovered that the flu lived harmlessly in pig mucus, and thus, dubbed the new virus swine flu?

3. What was the confirmed source of the first epidemic of Legionnaire's disease?

4. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

5. What CDC director was fired over the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease?

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