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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1914.
2. Where did Uwe Brinkmann go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Hamburg, Germany.
(c) Marburg, Germany.
(d) Sussex, England.
3. What refers to a neurological disorder that occurs when many nerves throughout the body malfunction simultaneously?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Atkinson's disease.
(d) Polyneuropathy.
4. Soon after the first outbreak described in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," another outbreak was seen at the hospital in what location?
(a) Kinshasha.
(b) Lagos.
(c) Monrovia.
(d) Lusaka.
5. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Peter Piot.
(b) Don Francis.
(c) Merl Kuns.
(d) Jordi Casals.
6. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?
(a) The University of California, Santa Cruz.
(b) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(c) The Yale Public Health Academy.
(d) The University of California, Los Angeles.
7. In what year did the worst flu epidemic in the twentieth century strike, killing millions?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1976.
8. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
(a) Laurie Garrett
(b) Johnathan Mann.
(c) Fred Murphy.
(d) Uwe Brinkmann.
9. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.
(a) Food.
(b) Antibiotics.
(c) Fluids.
(d) Pain killers.
10. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1957.
11. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Marburg, Germany.
(c) Sussex, England.
(d) Hamburg, Germany.
12. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Owls.
(b) Cats.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Eagles.
13. What does CDC stand for?
(a) Center for Destroying Cancer.
(b) Cancer and Disease Center.
(c) Corporate Disease Control.
(d) Centers for Disease Control.
14. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.
(a) Communist.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Federalist.
15. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?
(a) Regenerative nerve action.
(b) Reflexive neurological antibodies.
(c) Ribonucleic acid.
(d) Richmond Nutrition Association.
Short Answer Questions
1. Legionnaires' disease acquired its name when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention in what city?
2. Who discovered that the flu lived harmlessly in pig mucus, and thus, dubbed the new virus swine flu?
3. What does the acronym WHO stand for?
4. What was the confirmed source of the first epidemic of Legionnaire's disease?
5. 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?
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