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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Soon after the funeral of the first victim in Chapter 5, the mission was filled with the disease and some of the mission nurses were sent to ______________ to recover.
(a) Thailand.
(b) South Sudan.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Zaire.

3. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Sussex, England.
(c) Hamburg, Germany.
(d) Marburg, Germany.

4. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.
(a) Communist.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Federalist.
(d) Conservative.

5. 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"?
(a) Jodi Casals.
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(d) Clint Nyamurkunge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Karl Johnson's fiancee who became ill after visiting him in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

2. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?

3. Jordi Casals proved that the Lassa virus was spread through ______________.

4. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?

5. The Republic of Liberia is located on what continent?

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