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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the CDC call the first International AIDS Conference?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1991.
(d) 2002.

2. What, along with other chemicals, was used to eradicate the mosquito causing an increase in sand flies?
(a) TCW.
(b) DDT.
(c) DMR.
(d) LSD.

3. By what year did the World Bank see the need for better health care in poorly developed countries?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1990.

4. In Chapter 8: "Revolution," the author writes that the medical field discovered _____________, causing things to drastically change.
(a) Government subsidies.
(b) Vaccinations.
(c) Insurance loopholes.
(d) Genetic engineering.

5. Blackwater fever was caused by the overuse of what substance?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Vitamin A.
(c) Cod liver oil.
(d) Quinine.

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

7. What is a virus that is duplicated in a host cell using the reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome?
(a) Retrovirus.
(b) Polyvirus.
(c) Omnivirus.
(d) Slow virus.

8. When E coli 0157:H7 arrived, transmitted from contaminated meat, which argument became clear?
(a) Growing fruit crops.
(b) Famine.
(c) Over-drugging farm animals.
(d) Using pesticides.

9. Hantaviruses are carried by what type of animal?
(a) Bats.
(b) Rodents.
(c) Birds.
(d) Lizards.

10. Johnathan Mann's team advised global education, but in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic, many countries began to do what to immigrants with the disease?
(a) Deport them.
(b) Execute them.
(c) Imprison them.
(d) Quarentine them.

11. In the United States, the tuberculosis crisis peaked in 1830 and what other year?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1922.

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

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

14. The genus Salmonella was named after what American veterinary pathologist?
(a) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(b) Jim McDermott.
(c) Ron MacKenzie.
(d) Joe McCormick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The epidemics of what disease increased due to the Aswan High Dam inhibiting the natural fluctuations in water height?

2. What does PID refer to?

3. What disease did children with malaria contract after being required to have nearly complete blood transfusions?

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

5. In what state is the town of Lyme, for which Lyme disease was named, located?

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