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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: American Bicentennial.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Viral explorers.
(b) Medical juggernauts.
(c) Scientific geniouses.
(d) Disease cowboys.

2. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
(a) Laurie Garrett
(b) Johnathan Mann.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Fred Murphy.

3. What refers to compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often disease?
(a) Arbitration.
(b) Contingency.
(c) Quarantine.
(d) Extermination.

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

5. Where did Ron MacKenzie return after taking blood samples in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Ecuador.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Panama.

Short Answer Questions

1. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.

2. What does the acronym WHO stand for?

3. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?

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

5. How many deaths were reported from the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease in 1976?

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