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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 term antibiotic was coined by whom?
(a) Gerald Kimbel.
(b) Roger Jamsek.
(c) Selman Waksman.
(d) Steven Lyman.

2. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Al Wieden.
(b) Karl Johnson.
(c) Peter Piot.
(d) Harold Jaffe.

3. DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called ____________.
(a) Antibodies.
(b) Microbes.
(c) Genes.
(d) Nucleotides.

4. When Bernhard Mandrella went in for treatment for the Lassa virus, he was given blood from whom?
(a) Jordi Casals.
(b) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(c) Pat Webb.
(d) Lily Pinneo.

5. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Owls.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Cats.
(d) Eagles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does AIDS stand for?

2. The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in what year?

3. Near what United States city is the CDC headquartered?

4. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?

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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