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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?
(a) Ribonucleic acid.
(b) Richmond Nutrition Association.
(c) Reflexive neurological antibodies.
(d) Regenerative nerve action.

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

3. In Chapter 14, Johnathan Mann of the WHO Global Program on AIDS addressed a gathering of over a thousand in what city?
(a) Brussels.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Rome.

4. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1914.

5. The Aswan High Dam was constructed during what decade?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Peter Piot sent to study the virus later known as Ebola?

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

3. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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

5. Kent Campbell began testing whom for the Lassa virus in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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