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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. According to the author in Chapter 13, what were vital to cell transformation?
(a) Antiviral cascades.
(b) Protein inhibitors.
(c) Amino acids.
(d) Plasmids and transposons.

2. What does AIDS stand for?
(a) Albino immune destruction syndrome.
(b) Acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
(c) Anorexia induced disease syndrome.
(d) Autonomous insulin deficiency symptoms.

3. In what year was Karl Johnson in Panama when his friend, Ron MacKenzie, headed to Bolivia to investigate a disease, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1949.

4. What refers to an epidemic of an infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region?
(a) Extermination.
(b) Arythmia.
(c) Pandemic.
(d) Sociopath.

5. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?
(a) Iatrogenic.
(b) Retrovirus.
(c) Infection.
(d) Pandemic.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who discovered that the flu lived harmlessly in pig mucus, and thus, dubbed the new virus swine flu?

3. What is a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii?

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. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

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