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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1949.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1981.

2. Leprosy has affected humanity for over how many years?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 7,500.

3. What refers to the disease fighting white blood cells that help the immune system fight off infection?
(a) P-cells.
(b) G-cells.
(c) T-cells.
(d) D-cells.

4. In what year did the Great Plague hit London?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1293.
(c) 1557.
(d) 1428.

5. In Chapter 10: "Distant Thunder," the author writes that Harvey Milk was assassinated in what year?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1978.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Uganda-Tanzania War led to the overthrow of whose regime?

2. When E coli 0157:H7 arrived, transmitted from contaminated meat, which argument became clear?

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

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 13, what were vital to cell transformation?

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