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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Harold Jaffe.
(b) Karl Johnson.
(c) Peter Piot.
(d) Al Wieden.

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

3. What does AIDS stand for?
(a) Autonomous insulin deficiency symptoms.
(b) Anorexia induced disease syndrome.
(c) Albino immune destruction syndrome.
(d) Acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

4. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.
(a) Pain killers.
(b) Fluids.
(c) Food.
(d) Antibiotics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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

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

4. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?

5. What does the acronym WHO stand for?

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