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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?
(a) The LA Times.
(b) The Chicago Sun Times.
(c) USA Today.
(d) Newsday.

2. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Eagles.
(b) Cats.
(c) Mouse traps.
(d) Snakes.

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

4. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.
(a) Measles.
(b) Schistosomiasis.
(c) The Black Typhus.
(d) Malaria.

5. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Owl droppings.
(b) Mouse urine.
(c) Bed bugs.
(d) Roach feces.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What does the acronym WHO stand for?

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

4. What was the name of Karl Johnson's fiancee who became ill after visiting him in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

5. Where did Ron MacKenzie return after taking blood samples in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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