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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. When Bernhard Mandrella went in for treatment for the Lassa virus, he was given blood from whom?
(a) Lily Pinneo.
(b) Jordi Casals.
(c) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(d) Pat Webb.

2. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
(a) Fred Murphy.
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Laurie Garrett
(d) Johnathan Mann.

3. Following Kent Campbell's recovery, he was sent to investigate the Lassa outbreak in ______________.
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Spain.
(d) Poland.

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) Bacterial.
(b) Airborne.
(c) Viral.
(d) Communicable.

5. The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in what year?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1952.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does CDC stand for?

4. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?

5. When was the CDC founded?

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