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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. Maridi is a town located in what country?
(a) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(b) Tanzania.
(c) Uganda.
(d) South Sudan.

2. In what year was Karl Johnson in Panama when his friend, Ron MacKenzie, headed to Bolivia to investigate a disease, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1981.

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

4. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.
(a) Schistosomiasis.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Measles.
(d) The Black Typhus.

5. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.
(a) Panama.
(b) Tanzania.
(c) Uganda.
(d) Zaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the author writes that the influenza virus developed mutation strategies that made ___________ nearly impossible.

2. Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets" explains that prior to ___________ large cities were rare, and most of the illness threats were parasitic.

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

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

5. In the United States, the tuberculosis crisis peaked in 1830 and what other year?

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