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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 organ does tuberculosis usually attack?
(a) Heart.
(b) Kidneys.
(c) Lung.
(d) Brain.

2. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1974.

3. In Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the author writes that the influenza virus developed mutation strategies that made ___________ nearly impossible.
(a) Isolation.
(b) Antibodies.
(c) Pandemics.
(d) Infections.

4. Who discovered that the flu lived harmlessly in pig mucus, and thus, dubbed the new virus swine flu?
(a) Selman Waksman.
(b) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(c) Paul Bres.
(d) Richard Shope.

5. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to what Scottish scientist?
(a) Friedrich Miescher.
(b) Fred Murphy.
(c) Alexander Fleming.
(d) Harold Jaffe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What CDC director was fired over the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease?

2. The Aswan High Dam was constructed during what decade?

3. An epidemic of what disease proved that the United States was in rough shape and in need of timely vaccinations?

4. Kaposi's sarcoma was originally described by Moritz Kaposi in what year?

5. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

(see the answer key)

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