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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 surgeon traveled to the capital of Uganda only to discover that their virus matched the AIDS epidemic?
(a) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(b) Richard Shope.
(c) Jim McDermott.
(d) Clint Nyamurkunge.

2. What organ does tuberculosis usually attack?
(a) Lung.
(b) Brain.
(c) Kidneys.
(d) Heart.

3. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Hamburg, Germany.
(c) Sussex, England.
(d) Marburg, Germany.

4. In Africa, Peter Piot recalled seeing a case similar to the early AIDS cases in the 1970s, and he found three more cases on the books, all from __________.
(a) Zaire.
(b) Uganda.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.

5. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1974.

Short Answer Questions

1. Laurie Garrett earned her undergraduate degree in biology from what institution?

2. In a small village in Uganda, young women began becoming ill following sex with a traveling salesman and the disease was dubbed ______________.

3. In what year did the worst flu epidemic in the twentieth century strike, killing millions?

4. Where was Peter Piot sent to study the virus later known as Ebola?

5. The Aswan High Dam is an embankment dam situated across what river?

(see the answer key)

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