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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?
(a) Regenerative nerve action.
(b) Richmond Nutrition Association.
(c) Ribonucleic acid.
(d) Reflexive neurological antibodies.

2. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Karl Johnson.
(b) Harold Jaffe.
(c) Peter Piot.
(d) Al Wieden.

3. Researchers were able to track the outbreak of the Lassa virus to a woman from ______________.
(a) Monrovia.
(b) Kinshasha.
(c) Lusaka.
(d) Lagos.

4. Blackwater fever was caused by the overuse of what substance?
(a) Cod liver oil.
(b) Quinine.
(c) Vitamin A.
(d) Alcohol.

5. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of an uncle named ___________.
(a) Bernard.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Gerald.
(d) Stephen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MRSA stand for?

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

3. What refers to compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often disease?

4. When E coli 0157:H7 arrived, transmitted from contaminated meat, which argument became clear?

5. What is a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii?

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