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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17: Searching for Solutions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets" explains that prior to ___________ large cities were rare, and most of the illness threats were parasitic.
(a) 1500 A.D.
(b) 6000 B.C.
(c) 500 A.D.
(d) 2000 B.C.

2. When was the term antibiotic first coined?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1906.

3. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Owl droppings.
(b) Mouse urine.
(c) Roach feces.
(d) Bed bugs.

4. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?
(a) Alexander Fleming.
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Friedrich Miescher.
(d) Joe McCormick.

5. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Swine Flu.
(b) Junin.
(c) The Black Typhus.
(d) Measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the CDC founded?

2. Following Kent Campbell's recovery, he was sent to investigate the Lassa outbreak in ______________.

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

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

5. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.

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