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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. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?
(a) The r. tryrmic fish.
(b) The p.funtari lobster.
(c) The h. cyptamy rodent.
(d) The a. aegypti mosquito.

2. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Owls.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Cats.

3. 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.

4. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1897.

5. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?
(a) Richmond Nutrition Association.
(b) Ribonucleic acid.
(c) Reflexive neurological antibodies.
(d) Regenerative nerve action.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was penicillin first discovered?

2. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?

3. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.

4. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to what Scottish scientist?

5. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?

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