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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 was penicillin first discovered?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1955.

2. 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 Yale Public Health Academy.
(c) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(d) The University of California, Santa Cruz.

3. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.
(a) Disease.
(b) Antibodies.
(c) Antivirals.
(d) Mutations.

4. In the book's Preface, the author writes that the vulnerability of the world is increased due to which of the following?
(a) Modern travel.
(b) Human evolution.
(c) Decreased populations.
(d) Isolation of populations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the disease fighting white blood cells that help the immune system fight off infection?

2. 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?

3. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

4. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?

5. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?

(see the answer key)

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