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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?
(a) Joel Breman.
(b) Selman Waksman.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Johnathan Mann.

3. The Republic of Liberia is located on what continent?
(a) Asia.
(b) Europe.
(c) Africa.
(d) South America.

4. 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) Healthy Investments.
(b) The Health Transition.
(c) Banking on Doctors.
(d) The Wealthy Cleansing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?

2. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?

3. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of an uncle named ___________.

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

5. 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.

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