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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a small village in Uganda, young women began becoming ill following sex with a traveling salesman and the disease was dubbed ______________.
(a) "Rachel's disease."
(b) "Aristotle's disease."
(c) "Aphrodite's disease."
(d) "Juliana's disease."

2. What is a potentially fatal illness caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Toxic Shock Syndrome.
(d) Junin.

3. What refers to an epidemic of an infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region?
(a) Pandemic.
(b) Extermination.
(c) Sociopath.
(d) Arythmia.

4. What refers to a process by which thermal radiation is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases and then re-radiated in all directions?
(a) Pythagoreas effect.
(b) Greenhouse effect.
(c) Ohm's law.
(d) Coriolis effect.

5. In Chapter 11: "Hatari: Vinidogodogo," where were the doctors following a particularly virulent strain of herpes?
(a) Magdalena.
(b) Lagos.
(c) Lusaka.
(d) Kinshasha.

6. An increase in sand flies resulted in an increase in what disease, according to the author in Chapter 9?
(a) Pneumocystis pneumonia.
(b) Schistosomiasis.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Dengue fever.

7. In Chapter 7: "N'zara," Joe McCormick was called to _____________ during his Lassa research.
(a) Magdalena.
(b) Monrovia.
(c) Lusaka.
(d) Kinshasha.

8. Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets" explains that prior to ___________ large cities were rare, and most of the illness threats were parasitic.
(a) 2000 B.C.
(b) 500 A.D.
(c) 1500 A.D.
(d) 6000 B.C.

9. A study in Africa related to TB showed its decrease was likely due to what?
(a) Improved housing.
(b) Lack of rats.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Democratic government.

10. The hantavirus was first discovered during what war?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Gulf War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Korean War.

11. Kaposi's sarcoma was originally described by Moritz Kaposi in what year?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1872.

12. In what year did seals begin to die in mass numbers, signaling a new disease?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1994.
(d) 2004.

13. What is a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii?
(a) Swine Flu.
(b) Pneumocystis pneumonia.
(c) Junin.
(d) Schistosomiasis.

14. Leprosy has affected humanity for over how many years?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 7,500.
(d) 1,000.

15. The Uganda-Tanzania War took place during what years?
(a) 1978-1979.
(b) 1967-1971.
(c) 1982-1985.
(d) 1977-1981.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Black Plague reached its peak in Europe between what years?

2. When E coli 0157:H7 arrived, transmitted from contaminated meat, which argument became clear?

3. French and Belgium scientists began to suspect the AIDS disease was a virus with what origins?

4. E faecium became resistant to which last available antibiotic?

5. An epidemic of what disease proved that the United States was in rough shape and in need of timely vaccinations?

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