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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Peter Piot at CDC processed the samples sent to him in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," and tests showed the virus was neither ________________ nor anything else they had seen.
(a) Dengue fever.
(b) Measles.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Yellow fever.

2. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.
(a) Schistosomiasis.
(b) Measles.
(c) The Black Typhus.
(d) Malaria.

3. What expert of viruses at WHO was dispatched to Maridi to gather samples in Chapter 5: "Yambuku"?
(a) Al Wieden.
(b) Richard Shope.
(c) Merl Kuns.
(d) Paul Bres.

4. 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?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1969.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.

2. Bernhard Mandrella treated a coworker and sent blood which confirmed the Lassa virus to __________.

3. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.

4. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

5. What profession did Karl Johnson's fiancee have, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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