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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Great Plague of London killed approximately how many people?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 630,000.
(d) 250,000.

3. Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets" explains that prior to ___________ large cities were rare, and most of the illness threats were parasitic.
(a) 1500 A.D.
(b) 500 A.D.
(c) 6000 B.C.
(d) 2000 B.C.

4. What does PID refer to?
(a) Periodic immune deficiency.
(b) Personal identification document.
(c) Psychological information deflection.
(d) Pelvic inflammatory disease.

5. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?
(a) Hamburg, Germany.
(b) Warsaw, Poland.
(c) Sussex, England.
(d) Marburg, Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?

2. In what year did the CDC call the first International AIDS Conference?

3. Johnathan Mann's team advised global education, but in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic, many countries began to do what to immigrants with the disease?

4. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.

5. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to what Scottish scientist?

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