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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. In what year did the worst flu epidemic in the twentieth century strike, killing millions?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1976.

2. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?
(a) Selman Waksman.
(b) Gerald Kimbel.
(c) Roger Jamsek.
(d) Steven Lyman.

3. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?
(a) The h. cyptamy rodent.
(b) The a. aegypti mosquito.
(c) The r. tryrmic fish.
(d) The p.funtari lobster.

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) HIV.
(c) Swine Flu.
(d) Malaria.

5. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Karl Johnson.
(b) Al Wieden.
(c) Harold Jaffe.
(d) Peter Piot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

2. What organ does tuberculosis usually attack?

3. In what year did a type of swine flu strike in Texas simultaneously with another less deadly strain?

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

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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