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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) Yellow fever.
(b) Measles.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Dengue fever.

2. Joe McCormick was dispatched to what location to investigate the epidemic of the Ebola virus?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Lusaka.
(d) Kinshasa.

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

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

5. Following Kent Campbell's recovery, he was sent to investigate the Lassa outbreak in ______________.
(a) Germany.
(b) Spain.
(c) Poland.
(d) France.

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. Researchers were able to track the outbreak of the Lassa virus to a woman from ______________.

3. When was the term antibiotic first coined?

4. After the woman that researchers tracked the outbreak of the Lassa virus to had been hospitalized, how many people became ill in Chapter 4?

5. Where was Peter Piot sent to study the virus later known as Ebola?

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