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

2. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Merl Kuns.
(b) Peter Piot.
(c) Don Francis.
(d) Jordi Casals.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the book's Preface, the author writes that the vulnerability of the world is increased due to which of the following?

2. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of an uncle named ___________.

3. What is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking?

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

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

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