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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1944.

2. East and West Germany merged in what year, causing AIDS to strike fiercely?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1984.

3. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?
(a) The p.funtari lobster.
(b) The r. tryrmic fish.
(c) The h. cyptamy rodent.
(d) The a. aegypti mosquito.

4. An increase in sand flies resulted in an increase in what disease, according to the author in Chapter 9?
(a) Schistosomiasis.
(b) Dengue fever.
(c) Pneumocystis pneumonia.
(d) Malaria.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?

2. In Chapter 13: "Revenge of the Germs," by what year were many viruses resistant to antibiotics, including the staph infection?

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

4. What surgeon traveled to the capital of Uganda only to discover that their virus matched the AIDS epidemic?

5. What refers to compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often disease?

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