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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 the acronym WHO stand for?
(a) Women's Health Operation.
(b) Wholesome and Holistic Outlook.
(c) Wellness and Health Organization.
(d) World Health Organization.

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

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

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

5. In the book's Preface, the author writes that the vulnerability of the world is increased due to which of the following?
(a) Modern travel.
(b) Isolation of populations.
(c) Decreased populations.
(d) Human evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?

2. When was penicillin first discovered?

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

4. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

5. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.

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