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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.
(a) HIV.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Swine Flu.
(d) The Black Typhus.

2. When was penicillin first discovered?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1928.

3. What CDC director was fired over the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease?
(a) Johnathan Mann.
(b) Paul Bres.
(c) David Sencer.
(d) Friedrich Miescher.

4. Dr. Jeanette Troup was working in _____________ when an outbreak of the Lassa virus occurred.
(a) Kinshasha.
(b) Lusaka.
(c) Monrovia.
(d) Jos.

5. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.
(a) Communist.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Federalist.

6. 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) 1949.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1962.

7. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1897.

8. Where was Peter Piot sent to study the virus later known as Ebola?
(a) Tanzania.
(b) Spain.
(c) Zaire.
(d) Egypt.

9. What concept stated that as nations moved out of poverty and basic needs were met, scientists could use pharmaceutical and chemical tools to wipe out parasites, bacteria, and viruses?
(a) Banking on Doctors.
(b) Healthy Investments.
(c) The Wealthy Cleansing.
(d) The Health Transition.

10. Jordi Casals proved that the Lassa virus was spread through ______________.
(a) Ants.
(b) Rodents.
(c) Cats.
(d) Roaches.

11. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?
(a) Newsday.
(b) USA Today.
(c) The LA Times.
(d) The Chicago Sun Times.

12. The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in what year?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1935.

13. What does the acronym WHO stand for?
(a) Women's Health Operation.
(b) World Health Organization.
(c) Wellness and Health Organization.
(d) Wholesome and Holistic Outlook.

14. Soon after the funeral of the first victim in Chapter 5, the mission was filled with the disease and some of the mission nurses were sent to ______________ to recover.
(a) South Sudan.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Zaire.

15. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?
(a) Pneumocystis pneumonia.
(b) Bolivian hemorrhagic fever.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Schistosomiasis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within how much time was the virus now called Manchupo virus eradicated after Karl Johnson's team discovered the culprit of the epidemic in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

2. Who was treating Bernhard Mandrella for the Lassa virus when he met Kent Campbell?

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

4. In Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the author writes that the influenza virus developed mutation strategies that made ___________ nearly impossible.

5. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?

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