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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
(a) Johnathan Mann.
(b) Fred Murphy.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Laurie Garrett

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

3. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Swine Flu.
(b) Measles.
(c) The Black Typhus.
(d) Junin.

4. Laurie Garrett earned her undergraduate degree in biology from what institution?
(a) The Yale Public Health Academy.
(b) The University of California, Santa Cruz.
(c) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(d) The University of California, Los Angeles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.

2. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors 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. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?

5. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of an uncle named ___________.

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