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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: Thirdworldization.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country sought to improve its own infrastructures with little funding, relying instead on education?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Tanzania.
(c) The Soviet Union.
(d) Nigeria.

2. In Russia, a poor health care system that was impoverished following the fall of Communism forced the reuse of _______________.
(a) Specimen vials.
(b) Syringes.
(c) Surgical gloves.
(d) Transfusion apparatus.

3. 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) 1974.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1981.

4. The genus Salmonella was named after what American veterinary pathologist?
(a) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(b) Ron MacKenzie.
(c) Jim McDermott.
(d) Joe McCormick.

5. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?
(a) Selman Waksman.
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Johnathan Mann.
(d) Joel Breman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Karl Johnson's fiancee who became ill after visiting him in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

2. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.

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

4. When was the CDC founded?

5. What expert of viruses at WHO was dispatched to Maridi to gather samples in Chapter 5: "Yambuku"?

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