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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?
(a) Pneumocystis pneumonia.
(b) Bolivian hemorrhagic fever.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Schistosomiasis.

2. Where did Ron MacKenzie return after taking blood samples in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Ecuador.
(c) Panama.
(d) Argentina.

3. When was the CDC founded?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1925.

4. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?
(a) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(b) The University of California, Santa Cruz.
(c) The Yale Public Health Academy.
(d) The University of California, Los Angeles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was penicillin first discovered?

2. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.

3. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

4. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

5. 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?

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