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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Communicable.
(b) Viral.
(c) Bacterial.
(d) Airborne.

2. Near what United States city is the CDC headquartered?
(a) Atlanta, GA.
(b) Albany, NY.
(c) Seattle, WA.
(d) Phoenix, AZ.

3. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Quito.
(b) Lagos.
(c) Bogata.
(d) Magdalena.

4. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Merl Kuns.
(b) Jordi Casals.
(c) Don Francis.
(d) Peter Piot.

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) 12 days.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 4 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

2. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?

3. What does CDC stand for?

4. 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?

5. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?

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