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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: Hatari: Vinidogodogo and Chapter 12: Feminine Hygiene.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did GRID stand for when it was first applied to the AIDS epidemic?
(a) Gay related immunodeficiency virus.
(b) Germ reduction in verility.
(c) Geographic radiant in variant.
(d) Gastromic reguritory infectious virus.

2. With the first signs of the AIDS epidemic, the CDC quickly created a quiet division to work on the problem, while who traveled to see San Fransisco first hand in Chapter 11: "Hatari: Vinidogodogo"?
(a) Lily Pinneo.
(b) Friedrich Miescher.
(c) Merl Kuns.
(d) Harold Jaffe.

3. In Chapter 8: "Revolution," the author writes that the medical field discovered _____________, causing things to drastically change.
(a) Vaccinations.
(b) Genetic engineering.
(c) Government subsidies.
(d) Insurance loopholes.

4. A study in Africa related to TB showed its decrease was likely due to what?
(a) Improved housing.
(b) Democratic government.
(c) Lack of rats.
(d) Electricity.

5. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the study of parasites and tropical disease waned because in post-WWII health care, there was a shift to eradicate __________ from the planet.
(a) Cats.
(b) Monkeys.
(c) Rats.
(d) Microbes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?

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

3. What does AIDS stand for?

4. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to what Scottish scientist?

5. When was the term antibiotic first coined?

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