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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Health Transition and Chapter 3: Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Bacterial.
(b) Viral.
(c) Airborne.
(d) Communicable.

3. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?
(a) Roger Jamsek.
(b) Gerald Kimbel.
(c) Steven Lyman.
(d) Selman Waksman.

4. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of an uncle named ___________.
(a) Maurice.
(b) Gerald.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Stephen.

5. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.
(a) Uganda.
(b) France.
(c) Korea.
(d) Tanzania.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

3. What does AIDS stand for?

4. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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

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