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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Malaria.
(c) HIV.
(d) Dengue fever.

2. In the book's Preface, the author writes that the vulnerability of the world is increased due to which of the following?
(a) Decreased populations.
(b) Modern travel.
(c) Isolation of populations.
(d) Human evolution.

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

4. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) The Black Typhus.
(b) Junin.
(c) Measles.
(d) Swine Flu.

5. Laurie Garrett earned her undergraduate degree in biology from what institution?
(a) The University of California, Los Angeles.
(b) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(c) The University of California, Santa Cruz.
(d) The Yale Public Health Academy.

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

7. How many deaths were reported from the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease in 1976?
(a) 173.
(b) 328.
(c) 92.
(d) 34.

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

9. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.
(a) Uganda.
(b) France.
(c) Korea.
(d) Tanzania.

10. 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) Healthy Investments.
(b) Banking on Doctors.
(c) The Wealthy Cleansing.
(d) The Health Transition.

11. What does CDC stand for?
(a) Cancer and Disease Center.
(b) Corporate Disease Control.
(c) Centers for Disease Control.
(d) Center for Destroying Cancer.

12. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Medical juggernauts.
(b) Viral explorers.
(c) Disease cowboys.
(d) Scientific geniouses.

13. According to the author in Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the CDC was being berated since how many elderly individuals died following their vaccinations for swine flu?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 14.

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

15. In what country was Jordi Casals born?
(a) Italy.
(b) Egypt.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the CDC founded?

2. Legionnaires' disease acquired its name when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention in what city?

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

4. The Republic of Liberia is located on what continent?

5. 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?

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