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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: Thirdworldization.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Soon after the funeral of the first victim in Chapter 5, the mission was filled with the disease and some of the mission nurses were sent to ______________ to recover.
(a) Zaire.
(b) Tanzania.
(c) Thailand.
(d) South Sudan.

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

3. What refers to a neurological disorder that occurs when many nerves throughout the body malfunction simultaneously?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Atkinson's disease.
(c) Polyneuropathy.
(d) Bipolar disorder.

4. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.
(a) Malaria.
(b) HIV.
(c) The Black Typhus.
(d) Swine Flu.

5. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?
(a) Alexander Fleming.
(b) Friedrich Miescher.
(c) Joe McCormick.
(d) Uwe Brinkmann.

Short Answer Questions

1. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.

2. Within how much time was the virus now called Manchupo virus eradicated after Karl Johnson's team discovered the culprit of the epidemic in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. E faecium became resistant to which last available antibiotic?

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

5. Kaposi's sarcoma was originally described by Moritz Kaposi in what year?

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