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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. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?
(a) Newsday.
(b) The LA Times.
(c) USA Today.
(d) The Chicago Sun Times.

2. What is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Bulimia.
(c) Malnutrition.
(d) Antibody.

3. Where was Lily Pinneo flown after contracting the Lassa virus?
(a) Nevada.
(b) New York.
(c) North Dakota.
(d) New Hampshire.

4. When the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens, many critics believed that many emerging diseases were not __________, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Airborne.
(b) Viral.
(c) Communicable.
(d) Bacterial.

5. After the woman that researchers tracked the outbreak of the Lassa virus to had been hospitalized, how many people became ill in Chapter 4?
(a) 16.
(b) 7.
(c) 29.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?

2. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?

3. 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?

4. In Chapter 4: "Into the Woods," the author writes that Uwe Brinkmann, Bernhard Mandrella, Adam Cargill, and three nurses were taken to an isolated facility in which location?

5. In the book's Preface, the author writes that the vulnerability of the world is increased due to which of the following?

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