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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. What refers to compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often disease?
(a) Contingency.
(b) Extermination.
(c) Quarantine.
(d) Arbitration.

2. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1957.

3. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?
(a) Joel Breman.
(b) Johnathan Mann.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Selman Waksman.

4. 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.
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Dengue fever.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Measles.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?

3. What refers to a neurological disorder that occurs when many nerves throughout the body malfunction simultaneously?

4. Maridi is a town located in what country?

5. Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets" explains that prior to ___________ large cities were rare, and most of the illness threats were parasitic.

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