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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. 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.

2. In what country was Jordi Casals born?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

3. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.
(a) Conservative.
(b) Federalist.
(c) Communist.
(d) Liberal.

4. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?
(a) The h. cyptamy rodent.
(b) The r. tryrmic fish.
(c) The a. aegypti mosquito.
(d) The p.funtari lobster.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.

2. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?

3. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?

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

5. Dr. Jeanette Troup was working in _____________ when an outbreak of the Lassa virus occurred.

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