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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Legionnaires' disease acquired its name when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention in what city?
(a) Denver, CO.
(b) Chicago, IL.
(c) Detroit, MI.
(d) Philadelphia, PA.

3. In the beginning of Chapter 5: "Yambuku," the author describes a man in Yambuku who was treated for an illness like _____________.
(a) Measles.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Swine Flu.
(d) Junin.

4. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1969.

5. What refers to a neurological disorder that occurs when many nerves throughout the body malfunction simultaneously?
(a) Atkinson's disease.
(b) Polyneuropathy.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Bipolar disorder.

6. Who worked with Patricia Webb on the Ebola virus in the CDC's laboratory?
(a) Ron MacKenzie.
(b) Fred Murphy.
(c) Joe McCormick.
(d) Merl Kuns.

7. DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called ____________.
(a) Genes.
(b) Antibodies.
(c) Microbes.
(d) Nucleotides.

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

9. 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"?
(a) 4 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 12 days.
(d) 1 year.

10. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?
(a) The a. aegypti mosquito.
(b) The r. tryrmic fish.
(c) The h. cyptamy rodent.
(d) The p.funtari lobster.

11. What leader in infectious disease was called in to test the deadly virus against samples of thousands of viruses in his lab in Chapter 3: "Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides"?
(a) Uwe Brinkmann.
(b) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(c) Jodi Casals.
(d) Clint Nyamurkunge.

12. Following Kent Campbell's recovery, he was sent to investigate the Lassa outbreak in ______________.
(a) Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

13. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?
(a) Sussex, England.
(b) Hamburg, Germany.
(c) Warsaw, Poland.
(d) Marburg, Germany.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?

2. What profession did Karl Johnson's fiancee have, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. Peter Piot at CDC processed the samples sent to him in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," and tests showed the virus was neither ________________ nor anything else they had seen.

4. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?

5. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?

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