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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking?
(a) Antibody.
(b) Bulimia.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Malnutrition.

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

3. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to what Scottish scientist?
(a) Fred Murphy.
(b) Friedrich Miescher.
(c) Harold Jaffe.
(d) Alexander Fleming.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

2. Where was Lily Pinneo flown after contracting the Lassa virus?

3. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?

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

5. Dr. Jeanette Troup was working in _____________ when an outbreak of the Lassa virus occurred.

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