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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Mouse traps.
(b) Cats.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Snakes.

2. The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in what year?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1935.

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

4. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.
(a) Dengue fever.
(b) Malaria.
(c) HIV.
(d) Yellow fever.

5. What was the name of Karl Johnson's fiancee who became ill after visiting him in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Pat Webb.
(b) Wilma Randolph.
(c) Selman Waksman.
(d) Lily Pinneo.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. 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.

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

5. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?

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