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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. The outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 1976 forced through the bills regarding _____________.
(a) Swine Flu.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Toxic Shock Syndrome.
(d) The Black Typhus.

2. In what year did the worst flu epidemic in the twentieth century strike, killing millions?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1918.

3. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.
(a) Antibiotics.
(b) Pain killers.
(c) Fluids.
(d) Food.

4. Researchers were able to track the outbreak of the Lassa virus to a woman from ______________.
(a) Lagos.
(b) Lusaka.
(c) Kinshasha.
(d) Monrovia.

5. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?
(a) Uwe Brinkmann.
(b) Joe McCormick.
(c) Friedrich Miescher.
(d) Alexander Fleming.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?

2. What refers to the disease fighting white blood cells that help the immune system fight off infection?

3. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?

4. Within how much time was the virus now called Manchupo virus eradicated after Karl Johnson's team discovered the culprit of the epidemic in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

5. Yambuku is a small village in the Mongala District of what current country?

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