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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In what year was Karl Johnson in Panama when his friend, Ron MacKenzie, headed to Bolivia to investigate a disease, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1949.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the CDC founded?

2. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?

3. 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?

4. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?

5. What profession did Karl Johnson's fiancee have, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

(see the answer key)

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