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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Machupo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to what Scottish scientist?
(a) Alexander Fleming.
(b) Friedrich Miescher.
(c) Harold Jaffe.
(d) Fred Murphy.

2. When the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens, many critics believed that many emerging diseases were not __________, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Viral.
(b) Communicable.
(c) Bacterial.
(d) Airborne.

3. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Owls.
(b) Cats.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Eagles.

4. What does CDC stand for?
(a) Centers for Disease Control.
(b) Corporate Disease Control.
(c) Cancer and Disease Center.
(d) Center for Destroying Cancer.

5. 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"?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 12 days.
(d) 2 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was penicillin first discovered?

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

3. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

4. What is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking?

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

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