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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the study of parasites and tropical disease waned because in post-WWII health care, there was a shift to eradicate __________ from the planet.
(a) Microbes.
(b) Cats.
(c) Rats.
(d) Monkeys.

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

5. 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) Dengue fever.
(c) HIV.
(d) Malaria.

6. What was the confirmed source of the first epidemic of Legionnaire's disease?
(a) Mouse feces.
(b) Bad plumbing.
(c) Mosquitos.
(d) Air conditioning.

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

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

9. In what year was Karl Johnson in Panama when his friend, Ron MacKenzie, headed to Bolivia to investigate a disease, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1949.

10. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.
(a) Conservative.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Federalist.
(d) Communist.

11. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?
(a) Roger Jamsek.
(b) Gerald Kimbel.
(c) Steven Lyman.
(d) Selman Waksman.

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

13. 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) Bacterial.
(b) Airborne.
(c) Viral.
(d) Communicable.

14. What expert of viruses at WHO was dispatched to Maridi to gather samples in Chapter 5: "Yambuku"?
(a) Al Wieden.
(b) Richard Shope.
(c) Merl Kuns.
(d) Paul Bres.

15. In Chapter 4: "Into the Woods," the author writes that Uwe Brinkmann, Bernhard Mandrella, Adam Cargill, and three nurses were taken to an isolated facility in which location?
(a) Thailand.
(b) Spain.
(c) New York.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many deaths were reported from the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease in 1976?

2. Joe McCormick was dispatched to what location to investigate the epidemic of the Ebola virus?

3. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.

4. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?

5. Where was Peter Piot sent to study the virus later known as Ebola?

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