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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. The Uganda-Tanzania War took place during what years?
(a) 1978-1979.
(b) 1982-1985.
(c) 1967-1971.
(d) 1977-1981.

2. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?
(a) The University of California, Santa Cruz.
(b) The Yale Public Health Academy.
(c) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(d) The University of California, Los Angeles.

3. The French finally announced they had discovered what virus believed to cause AIDS?
(a) LAV.
(b) YRBD.
(c) GEP.
(d) TAM.

4. According to the author in Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the CDC was being berated since how many elderly individuals died following their vaccinations for swine flu?
(a) 14.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

5. The Black Plague reached its peak in Europe between what years?
(a) 1491-1497.
(b) 1675-1678.
(c) 1348-1350.
(d) 1221-1222.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?

2. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?

3. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?

4. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

5. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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