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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 did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Bed bugs.
(b) Roach feces.
(c) Owl droppings.
(d) Mouse urine.

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) Communicable.
(b) Airborne.
(c) Bacterial.
(d) Viral.

3. When was penicillin first discovered?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1955.

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

5. When was the term antibiotic first coined?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1966.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?

2. 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"?

3. 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"?

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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