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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. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.
(a) Antibodies.
(b) Disease.
(c) Antivirals.
(d) Mutations.

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

3. Jordi Casals proved that the Lassa virus was spread through ______________.
(a) Cats.
(b) Roaches.
(c) Ants.
(d) Rodents.

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

5. Where did Ron MacKenzie return after taking blood samples in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Panama.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Ecuador.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?

2. 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?

3. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?

4. Legionnaires' disease acquired its name when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention in what city?

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

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