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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was treating Bernhard Mandrella for the Lassa virus when he met Kent Campbell?
(a) David Sencer.
(b) Al Wieden.
(c) Jay Butler.
(d) Uwe Brinkmann.

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

4. 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"?
(a) Uwe Brinkmann.
(b) Jodi Casals.
(c) Clint Nyamurkunge.
(d) Daniel Elmer Salmon.

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

6. 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) Viral.
(c) Bacterial.
(d) Airborne.

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

8. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?
(a) Deoxyribonucleic acid.
(b) Dental nerve activity.
(c) Destructive neurological action.
(d) Deterioration of nerve acid.

9. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?
(a) Hamburg, Germany.
(b) Sussex, England.
(c) Warsaw, Poland.
(d) Marburg, Germany.

10. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Bogata.
(c) Magdalena.
(d) Quito.

11. After the woman that researchers tracked the outbreak of the Lassa virus to had been hospitalized, how many people became ill in Chapter 4?
(a) 7.
(b) 16.
(c) 4.
(d) 29.

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

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

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

15. 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) Jordi Casals.
(c) Peter Piot.
(d) Merl Kuns.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Dr. Jeanette Troup was working in _____________ when an outbreak of the Lassa virus occurred.

3. Laurie Garrett earned her undergraduate degree in biology from what institution?

4. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?

5. What profession did Karl Johnson's fiancee have, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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