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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. Yambuku is a small village in the Mongala District of what current country?
(a) Zaire.
(b) Uganda.
(c) South Sudan.
(d) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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

3. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Pneumocystis pneumonia.
(c) Bolivian hemorrhagic fever.
(d) Schistosomiasis.

4. A study in Africa related to TB showed its decrease was likely due to what?
(a) Lack of rats.
(b) Improved housing.
(c) Democratic government.
(d) Electricity.

5. What is a potentially fatal illness caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes?
(a) Toxic Shock Syndrome.
(b) Junin.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Yellow fever.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.

3. In Chapter 8: "Revolution," the author writes that the medical field discovered _____________, causing things to drastically change.

4. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?

5. In what year did the Great Plague hit London?

(see the answer key)

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