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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. DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called ____________.
(a) Genes.
(b) Microbes.
(c) Nucleotides.
(d) Antibodies.

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

3. 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) Decreased populations.
(c) Isolation of populations.
(d) Human evolution.

4. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1985.

5. What concept stated that as nations moved out of poverty and basic needs were met, scientists could use pharmaceutical and chemical tools to wipe out parasites, bacteria, and viruses?
(a) The Wealthy Cleansing.
(b) Banking on Doctors.
(c) Healthy Investments.
(d) The Health Transition.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the CDC founded?

2. When was penicillin first discovered?

3. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?

4. What does CDC stand for?

5. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?

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