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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. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the study of parasites and tropical disease waned because in post-WWII health care, there was a shift to eradicate __________ from the planet.
(a) Cats.
(b) Microbes.
(c) Rats.
(d) Monkeys.

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

3. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?
(a) Infection.
(b) Pandemic.
(c) Iatrogenic.
(d) Retrovirus.

4. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Jordi Casals.
(b) Don Francis.
(c) Merl Kuns.
(d) Peter Piot.

5. When was the CDC founded?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. What leader in infectious disease was called in to test the deadly virus against samples of thousands of viruses in his lab in Chapter 3: "Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides"?

2. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?

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

4. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

5. Laurie Garrett earned her undergraduate degree in biology from what institution?

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