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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does CDC stand for?
(a) Cancer and Disease Center.
(b) Centers for Disease Control.
(c) Center for Destroying Cancer.
(d) Corporate Disease Control.

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

3. What was the name of Karl Johnson's fiancee who became ill after visiting him in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Wilma Randolph.
(b) Pat Webb.
(c) Lily Pinneo.
(d) Selman Waksman.

4. What profession did Karl Johnson's fiancee have, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Dermatologist.
(b) Oncologist.
(c) Neurologist.
(d) Virologist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such 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 Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

4. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?

5. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.

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