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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. The outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 1976 forced through the bills regarding _____________.
(a) The Black Typhus.
(b) Swine Flu.
(c) Toxic Shock Syndrome.
(d) Malaria.

2. Where was Lily Pinneo flown after contracting the Lassa virus?
(a) Nevada.
(b) North Dakota.
(c) New York.
(d) New Hampshire.

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

4. When did the Rwandan Civil War begin?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1970.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter Piot at CDC processed the samples sent to him in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," and tests showed the virus was neither ________________ nor anything else they had seen.

2. The hantavirus was first discovered during what war?

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

4. In Chapter 4: "Into the Woods," the author writes that Uwe Brinkmann, Bernhard Mandrella, Adam Cargill, and three nurses were taken to an isolated facility in which location?

5. German authorities began to argue with the authorities of ___________ over the Lassa virus in Chapter 4.

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