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

2. Blackwater fever was caused by the overuse of what substance?
(a) Vitamin A.
(b) Cod liver oil.
(c) Quinine.
(d) Alcohol.

3. After the woman that researchers tracked the outbreak of the Lassa virus to had been hospitalized, how many people became ill in Chapter 4?
(a) 29.
(b) 4.
(c) 16.
(d) 7.

4. Kent Campbell began testing whom for the Lassa virus in Chapter 4?
(a) Irish nuns.
(b) Canadian hospital workers.
(c) Iranian refugees.
(d) German soldiers.

5. The Uganda-Tanzania War led to the overthrow of whose regime?
(a) Aba Inor's.
(b) Eze Oman's.
(c) Idi Amin's.
(d) Oto Eron's.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what year did the World Bank see the need for better health care in poorly developed countries?

2. Soon after the first outbreak described in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," another outbreak was seen at the hospital in what location?

3. In Chapter 8: "Revolution," the author writes that the medical field discovered _____________, causing things to drastically change.

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

5. What does the acronym WHO stand for?

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