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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 refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Viral explorers.
(b) Medical juggernauts.
(c) Disease cowboys.
(d) Scientific geniouses.

2. 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.

3. 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) Snakes.
(c) Cats.
(d) Mouse traps.

4. 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) 2 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 12 days.
(d) 4 weeks.

5. 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 Yale Public Health Academy.
(c) The University of California, Santa Cruz.
(d) The University of California, Los Angeles.

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. When was penicillin first discovered?

3. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

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

5. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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