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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. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1914.

2. Yambuku is a small village in the Mongala District of what current country?
(a) Uganda.
(b) Zaire.
(c) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(d) South Sudan.

3. 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.

4. What refers to an epidemic of an infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region?
(a) Extermination.
(b) Pandemic.
(c) Arythmia.
(d) Sociopath.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who worked with Patricia Webb on the Ebola virus in the CDC's laboratory?

2. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?

3. Within how much time was the virus now called Manchupo virus eradicated after Karl Johnson's team discovered the culprit of the epidemic in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

4. Jordi Casals proved that the Lassa virus was spread through ______________.

5. In Chapter 10: "Distant Thunder," the author writes that Harvey Milk was assassinated in what year?

(see the answer key)

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