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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Merl Kuns.
(c) Don Francis.
(d) Peter Piot.

2. Where was Peter Piot sent to study the virus later known as Ebola?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Spain.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Zaire.

3. Who worked with Patricia Webb on the Ebola virus in the CDC's laboratory?
(a) Merl Kuns.
(b) Joe McCormick.
(c) Fred Murphy.
(d) Ron MacKenzie.

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

5. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?
(a) The r. tryrmic fish.
(b) The p.funtari lobster.
(c) The a. aegypti mosquito.
(d) The h. cyptamy rodent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

2. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.

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

4. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.

5. 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?

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