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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often disease?
(a) Contingency.
(b) Extermination.
(c) Arbitration.
(d) Quarantine.

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

4. Joe McCormick was dispatched to what location to investigate the epidemic of the Ebola virus?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Lusaka.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Kinshasa.

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

6. Researchers were able to track the outbreak of the Lassa virus to a woman from ______________.
(a) Lusaka.
(b) Monrovia.
(c) Kinshasha.
(d) Lagos.

7. Soon after the first outbreak described in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," another outbreak was seen at the hospital in what location?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Kinshasha.
(c) Lusaka.
(d) Monrovia.

8. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.
(a) Fluids.
(b) Pain killers.
(c) Food.
(d) Antibiotics.

9. When was the term antibiotic first coined?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1966.

10. The outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 1976 forced through the bills regarding _____________.
(a) The Black Typhus.
(b) Toxic Shock Syndrome.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Swine Flu.

11. When the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens, many critics believed that many emerging diseases were not __________, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Communicable.
(b) Bacterial.
(c) Airborne.
(d) Viral.

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?

2. When was penicillin first discovered?

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

4. 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?

5. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?

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