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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) Argentina.
(c) Panama.
(d) Ecuador.

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

3. 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.

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

5. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.
(a) Disease.
(b) Antibodies.
(c) Antivirals.
(d) Mutations.

6. The Republic of Liberia is located on what continent?
(a) Europe.
(b) South America.
(c) Asia.
(d) Africa.

7. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?
(a) Alexander Fleming.
(b) Friedrich Miescher.
(c) Joe McCormick.
(d) Uwe Brinkmann.

8. 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) Monkeys.
(c) Cats.
(d) Rats.

9. Within how much time was the virus now called Manchupo virus eradicated after Karl Johnson's team discovered the culprit of the epidemic in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 12 days.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 4 weeks.

10. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Harold Jaffe.
(b) Al Wieden.
(c) Peter Piot.
(d) Karl Johnson.

11. 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.

12. In what year did a type of swine flu strike in Texas simultaneously with another less deadly strain?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1776.

13. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.
(a) The Black Typhus.
(b) HIV.
(c) Swine Flu.
(d) Malaria.

14. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Don Francis.
(b) Merl Kuns.
(c) Peter Piot.
(d) Jordi Casals.

15. Dr. Jeanette Troup was working in _____________ when an outbreak of the Lassa virus occurred.
(a) Jos.
(b) Lusaka.
(c) Monrovia.
(d) Kinshasha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the disease fighting white blood cells that help the immune system fight off infection?

2. Yambuku is a small village in the Mongala District of what current country?

3. What leader in infectious disease was called in to test the deadly virus against samples of thousands of viruses in his lab in Chapter 3: "Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides"?

4. What is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking?

5. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.

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