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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. 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) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

2. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?
(a) 1960's.
(b) 1970's.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1950's.

3. In what year did a type of swine flu strike in Texas simultaneously with another less deadly strain?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1776.

4. Laurie Garrett earned her undergraduate degree in biology from 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.

5. Joe McCormick was dispatched to what location to investigate the epidemic of the Ebola virus?
(a) Kinshasa.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Lusaka.
(d) Lagos.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Uganda-Tanzania War led to the overthrow of whose regime?

2. What organ does tuberculosis usually attack?

3. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?

4. What leader in infectious disease was called in to test the deadly virus against samples of thousands of viruses in his lab in Chapter 3: "Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides"?

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

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