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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?
(a) Sussex, England.
(b) Sydney, Australia.
(c) Marburg, Germany.
(d) Toronto, Canada.

5. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1985.

6. Peter Piot at CDC processed the samples sent to him in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," and tests showed the virus was neither ________________ nor anything else they had seen.
(a) Dengue fever.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Measles.
(d) Malaria.

7. What profession did Karl Johnson's fiancee have, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Neurologist.
(b) Virologist.
(c) Oncologist.
(d) Dermatologist.

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

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

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

11. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Medical juggernauts.
(b) Disease cowboys.
(c) Scientific geniouses.
(d) Viral explorers.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.

2. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.

3. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

4. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

5. Where was Lily Pinneo flown after contracting the Lassa virus?

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