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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
(a) Uwe Brinkmann.
(b) Fred Murphy.
(c) Laurie Garrett
(d) Johnathan Mann.

2. In what year did the CDC call the first International AIDS Conference?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1996.
(d) 2002.

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

4. The Republic of Liberia is located on what continent?
(a) Africa.
(b) South America.
(c) Asia.
(d) Europe.

5. Where did Uwe Brinkmann go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Hamburg, Germany.
(c) Sussex, England.
(d) Marburg, Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did a type of swine flu strike in Texas simultaneously with another less deadly strain?

2. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.

3. Joe McCormick met with scientists from what country that wanted samples of the Lassa virus?

4. In China, the use of what drug was encouraging AIDS to spread, according to the author in Chapter 14?

5. In Chapter 11: "Hatari: Vinidogodogo," where were the doctors following a particularly virulent strain of herpes?

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