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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. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?
(a) The University of California, Los Angeles.
(b) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(c) The University of California, Santa Cruz.
(d) The Yale Public Health Academy.

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

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

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

5. German authorities began to argue with the authorities of ___________ over the Lassa virus in Chapter 4.
(a) Italy.
(b) France.
(c) Poland.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?

4. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

5. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?

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