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

2. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.
(a) HIV.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Dengue fever.
(d) Yellow fever.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the acronym WHO stand for?

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

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

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