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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. DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called ____________.
(a) Microbes.
(b) Nucleotides.
(c) Antibodies.
(d) Genes.

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

3. Who discovered that the flu lived harmlessly in pig mucus, and thus, dubbed the new virus swine flu?
(a) Paul Bres.
(b) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(c) Richard Shope.
(d) Selman Waksman.

4. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?
(a) Destructive neurological action.
(b) Dental nerve activity.
(c) Deterioration of nerve acid.
(d) Deoxyribonucleic acid.

5. In the United States, the tuberculosis crisis peaked in 1830 and what other year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the worst flu epidemic in the twentieth century strike, killing millions?

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

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

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

5. Within how much time was the virus now called Manchupo virus eradicated after Karl Johnson's team discovered the culprit of the epidemic in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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