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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. What was the confirmed source of the first epidemic of Legionnaire's disease?
(a) Bad plumbing.
(b) Mosquitos.
(c) Mouse feces.
(d) Air conditioning.

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

3. When the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens, many critics believed that many emerging diseases were not __________, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Viral.
(b) Communicable.
(c) Airborne.
(d) Bacterial.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the term antibiotic first coined?

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

3. When was penicillin first discovered?

4. DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called ____________.

5. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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