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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. 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?
(a) New York.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Spain.
(d) Germany.

2. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.
(a) Schistosomiasis.
(b) The Black Typhus.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Measles.

3. Dr. Jeanette Troup was working in _____________ when an outbreak of the Lassa virus occurred.
(a) Lusaka.
(b) Monrovia.
(c) Kinshasha.
(d) Jos.

4. Kent Campbell began testing whom for the Lassa virus in Chapter 4?
(a) Canadian hospital workers.
(b) Irish nuns.
(c) Iranian refugees.
(d) German soldiers.

5. Bernhard Mandrella treated a coworker and sent blood which confirmed the Lassa virus to __________.
(a) The CDC.
(b) The FBI.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The WHO.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When was penicillin first discovered?

4. Where did Ron MacKenzie return after taking blood samples in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

5. 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.

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