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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does MRSA stand for?
(a) Microbial reproductive static amoebae.
(b) Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus.
(c) Muscular respritory stimulated activity.
(d) Mammalian reproductive staphylococcus aureus.

2. What disease did children with malaria contract after being required to have nearly complete blood transfusions?
(a) HIV.
(b) Schistosomiasis.
(c) Measles.
(d) Junin.

3. To what drugs was the herpes epidemic resistant?
(a) Superviral.
(b) Antiviral.
(c) Antibacterial.
(d) Omnibacterial.

4. What does PID refer to?
(a) Psychological information deflection.
(b) Pelvic inflammatory disease.
(c) Periodic immune deficiency.
(d) Personal identification document.

5. In what year did the Great Plague hit London?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1293.
(c) 1428.
(d) 1557.

6. In Africa, Peter Piot recalled seeing a case similar to the early AIDS cases in the 1970s, and he found three more cases on the books, all from __________.
(a) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(b) Zaire.
(c) Uganda.
(d) Tanzania.

7. The Uganda-Tanzania War led to the overthrow of whose regime?
(a) Idi Amin's.
(b) Oto Eron's.
(c) Eze Oman's.
(d) Aba Inor's.

8. What country sought to improve its own infrastructures with little funding, relying instead on education?
(a) Mexico.
(b) The Soviet Union.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Nigeria.

9. What did GRID stand for when it was first applied to the AIDS epidemic?
(a) Gastromic reguritory infectious virus.
(b) Geographic radiant in variant.
(c) Germ reduction in verility.
(d) Gay related immunodeficiency virus.

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

11. The Great Plague of London killed approximately how many people?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 630,000.

12. According to the "Rivet Hypothesis," what happens to the ecosystem as each species is removed?
(a) Less stable.
(b) A desert.
(c) More stable.
(d) Full of holes.

13. Lyme disease was first discovered when a number of cases were identified in what year?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1928.

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

15. An epidemic of what disease proved that the United States was in rough shape and in need of timely vaccinations?
(a) Schistosomiasis.
(b) Dengue fever.
(c) Measles.
(d) Yellow fever.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the second social epidemic noted by the WHO?

3. What, along with other chemicals, was used to eradicate the mosquito causing an increase in sand flies?

4. The Aswan High Dam was constructed during what decade?

5. In Russia, a poor health care system that was impoverished following the fall of Communism forced the reuse of _______________.

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