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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. Soon after the funeral of the first victim in Chapter 5, the mission was filled with the disease and some of the mission nurses were sent to ______________ to recover.
(a) Zaire.
(b) South Sudan.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Thailand.

2. Soon after the first outbreak described in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," another outbreak was seen at the hospital in what location?
(a) Monrovia.
(b) Lusaka.
(c) Kinshasha.
(d) Lagos.

3. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?
(a) Iatrogenic.
(b) Infection.
(c) Retrovirus.
(d) Pandemic.

4. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1970.

5. When was penicillin first discovered?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1961.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

2. Jordi Casals proved that the Lassa virus was spread through ______________.

3. What expert of viruses at WHO was dispatched to Maridi to gather samples in Chapter 5: "Yambuku"?

4. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

5. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?

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