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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. Who was treating Bernhard Mandrella for the Lassa virus when he met Kent Campbell?
(a) David Sencer.
(b) Jay Butler.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Al Wieden.

2. What is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking?
(a) Antibody.
(b) Bulimia.
(c) Malnutrition.
(d) Epilepsy.

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

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

5. What does CDC stand for?
(a) Center for Destroying Cancer.
(b) Cancer and Disease Center.
(c) Centers for Disease Control.
(d) Corporate Disease Control.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what country was Jordi Casals born?

3. Who discovered that the flu lived harmlessly in pig mucus, and thus, dubbed the new virus swine flu?

4. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.

5. When was the term antibiotic first coined?

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