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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. Who worked with Patricia Webb on the Ebola virus in the CDC's laboratory?
(a) Merl Kuns.
(b) Fred Murphy.
(c) Joe McCormick.
(d) Ron MacKenzie.

2. In the United States, the tuberculosis crisis peaked in 1830 and what other year?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1896.

3. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.
(a) France.
(b) Korea.
(c) Uganda.
(d) Tanzania.

4. What is a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii?
(a) Schistosomiasis.
(b) Swine Flu.
(c) Pneumocystis pneumonia.
(d) Junin.

5. 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) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(b) Uganda.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Zaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country was Jordi Casals born?

2. The epidemics of what disease increased due to the Aswan High Dam inhibiting the natural fluctuations in water height?

3. The Great Plague of London killed approximately how many people?

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?

5. What refers to compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often disease?

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