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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Yambuku.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Dengue fever.
(c) HIV.
(d) Malaria.

2. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.
(a) The Black Typhus.
(b) Malaria.
(c) HIV.
(d) Swine Flu.

3. Near what United States city is the CDC headquartered?
(a) Albany, NY.
(b) Phoenix, AZ.
(c) Atlanta, GA.
(d) Seattle, WA.

4. Soon after the first outbreak described in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," another outbreak was seen at the hospital in what location?
(a) Monrovia.
(b) Kinshasha.
(c) Lusaka.
(d) Lagos.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.

3. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.

4. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

5. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

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