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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. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) The Black Typhus.
(b) Measles.
(c) Swine Flu.
(d) Junin.

2. Who was treating Bernhard Mandrella for the Lassa virus when he met Kent Campbell?
(a) Jay Butler.
(b) David Sencer.
(c) Al Wieden.
(d) Uwe Brinkmann.

3. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?
(a) 1960's.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1950's.
(d) 1970's.

4. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1974.

5. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.
(a) Tanzania.
(b) Panama.
(c) Uganda.
(d) Zaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bernhard Mandrella treated a coworker and sent blood which confirmed the Lassa virus to __________.

2. What leader in infectious disease was called in to test the deadly virus against samples of thousands of viruses in his lab in Chapter 3: "Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides"?

3. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.

4. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

5. DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called ____________.

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