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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Ron MacKenzie return after taking blood samples in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Panama.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Ecuador.

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

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

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

5. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?
(a) Joel Breman.
(b) Johnathan Mann.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Selman Waksman.

6. When was the CDC founded?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1867.

7. What CDC director was fired over the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease?
(a) Paul Bres.
(b) David Sencer.
(c) Friedrich Miescher.
(d) Johnathan Mann.

8. The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in what year?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1960.

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

10. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Snakes.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Mouse traps.
(d) Cats.

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

12. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1957.

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

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

15. Bernhard Mandrella treated a coworker and sent blood which confirmed the Lassa virus to __________.
(a) The CDC.
(b) The CIA.
(c) The WHO.
(d) The FBI.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?

2. 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?

3. In Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the author writes that the influenza virus developed mutation strategies that made ___________ nearly impossible.

4. In the beginning of Chapter 5: "Yambuku," the author describes a man in Yambuku who was treated for an illness like _____________.

5. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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