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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. What does CDC stand for?
(a) Cancer and Disease Center.
(b) Corporate Disease Control.
(c) Center for Destroying Cancer.
(d) Centers for Disease Control.

2. Researchers were able to track the outbreak of the Lassa virus to a woman from ______________.
(a) Lusaka.
(b) Lagos.
(c) Monrovia.
(d) Kinshasha.

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

4. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.
(a) Antibiotics.
(b) Fluids.
(c) Pain killers.
(d) Food.

5. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?
(a) Bolivian hemorrhagic fever.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Schistosomiasis.
(d) Pneumocystis pneumonia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. 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?

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

5. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?

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