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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.
(a) Antibodies.
(b) Mutations.
(c) Antivirals.
(d) Disease.

2. In Chapter 14, Johnathan Mann of the WHO Global Program on AIDS addressed a gathering of over a thousand in what city?
(a) Rome.
(b) Brussels.
(c) Berlin.
(d) London.

3. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1991.

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

5. Yambuku is a small village in the Mongala District of what current country?
(a) South Sudan.
(b) Uganda.
(c) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(d) Zaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bernhard Mandrella went in for treatment for the Lassa virus, he was given blood from whom?

2. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?

3. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

4. What is a virus that is duplicated in a host cell using the reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome?

5. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?

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