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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) Corporate Disease Control.
(c) Centers for Disease Control.
(d) Center for Destroying Cancer.

2. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?
(a) Pneumocystis pneumonia.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Schistosomiasis.
(d) Bolivian hemorrhagic fever.

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

4. When was penicillin first discovered?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1942.

5. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to what Scottish scientist?
(a) Friedrich Miescher.
(b) Alexander Fleming.
(c) Harold Jaffe.
(d) Fred Murphy.

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. 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"?

3. 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?

4. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.

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

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