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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. Who worked with Patricia Webb on the Ebola virus in the CDC's laboratory?
(a) Fred Murphy.
(b) Joe McCormick.
(c) Ron MacKenzie.
(d) Merl Kuns.

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

3. The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in what year?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1952.

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

5. Soon after the funeral of the first victim in Chapter 5, the mission was filled with the disease and some of the mission nurses were sent to ______________ to recover.
(a) Zaire.
(b) Tanzania.
(c) South Sudan.
(d) Thailand.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?

2. 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?

3. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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

5. 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"?

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