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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Into the Woods.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Owl droppings.
(b) Roach feces.
(c) Bed bugs.
(d) Mouse urine.

3. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Snakes.
(b) Cats.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Mouse traps.

4. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.
(a) Mutations.
(b) Antibodies.
(c) Antivirals.
(d) Disease.

5. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.
(a) Zaire.
(b) Panama.
(c) Uganda.
(d) Tanzania.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?

3. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the study of parasites and tropical disease waned because in post-WWII health care, there was a shift to eradicate __________ from the planet.

4. What profession did Karl Johnson's fiancee have, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

5. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?

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