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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yambuku is a small village in the Mongala District of what current country?
(a) South Sudan.
(b) Uganda.
(c) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(d) Zaire.

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

3. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?
(a) The University of California, Los Angeles.
(b) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(c) The Yale Public Health Academy.
(d) The University of California, Santa Cruz.

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

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

6. What is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking?
(a) Antibody.
(b) Bulimia.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Malnutrition.

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

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

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

10. What does the acronym WHO stand for?
(a) Wholesome and Holistic Outlook.
(b) Wellness and Health Organization.
(c) World Health Organization.
(d) Women's Health Operation.

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

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

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

14. 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) 4.
(b) 29.
(c) 7.
(d) 16.

15. 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) The Health Transition.
(c) Banking on Doctors.
(d) The Wealthy Cleansing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country was Jordi Casals born?

2. Kent Campbell began testing whom for the Lassa virus in Chapter 4?

3. The first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease occurred during what month in the year 1976?

4. Jordi Casals proved that the Lassa virus was spread through ______________.

5. The outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 1976 forced through the bills regarding _____________.

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