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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of Karl Johnson's fiancee who became ill after visiting him in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Wilma Randolph.
(b) Lily Pinneo.
(c) Pat Webb.
(d) Selman Waksman.

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

4. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?
(a) Uwe Brinkmann.
(b) Johnathan Mann.
(c) Selman Waksman.
(d) Joel Breman.

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

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

7. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?
(a) Dental nerve activity.
(b) Deterioration of nerve acid.
(c) Destructive neurological action.
(d) Deoxyribonucleic acid.

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

9. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Eagles.
(b) Cats.
(c) Owls.
(d) Snakes.

10. When Bernhard Mandrella went in for treatment for the Lassa virus, he was given blood from whom?
(a) Pat Webb.
(b) Jordi Casals.
(c) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(d) Lily Pinneo.

11. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Al Wieden.
(b) Karl Johnson.
(c) Peter Piot.
(d) Harold Jaffe.

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

13. Bernhard Mandrella treated a coworker and sent blood which confirmed the Lassa virus to __________.
(a) The FBI.
(b) The CDC.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The WHO.

14. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?
(a) Ribonucleic acid.
(b) Regenerative nerve action.
(c) Reflexive neurological antibodies.
(d) Richmond Nutrition Association.

15. Near what United States city is the CDC headquartered?
(a) Seattle, WA.
(b) Atlanta, GA.
(c) Albany, NY.
(d) Phoenix, AZ.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did a type of swine flu strike in Texas simultaneously with another less deadly strain?

2. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.

3. 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.

4. In what year did the worst flu epidemic in the twentieth century strike, killing millions?

5. When was penicillin first discovered?

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