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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. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
(a) Fred Murphy.
(b) Johnathan Mann.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Laurie Garrett

2. In what country was Jordi Casals born?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Spain.
(d) Egypt.

3. In what year did the worst flu epidemic in the twentieth century strike, killing millions?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1873.

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the CDC was being berated since how many elderly individuals died following their vaccinations for swine flu?
(a) 14.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Jeanette Troup was working in _____________ when an outbreak of the Lassa virus occurred.

2. In the Afterword, Garrett explains that MacKenzie and Karl Johnson revisited San Joaquin how many years after the outbreak of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever?

3. The Black Plague reached its peak in Europe between what years?

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

5. What does the acronym WHO stand for?

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