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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What country had further issues with the AIDS epidemic in that two separate strains of the disease were erupting?
(a) France.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Germany.
(d) El Salvador.

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

4. In China, the use of what drug was encouraging AIDS to spread, according to the author in Chapter 14?
(a) LSD.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Methamphetamine.
(d) Cocaine.

5. In Chapter 13: "Revenge of the Germs," by what year were many viruses resistant to antibiotics, including the staph infection?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1982.

6. The Black Plague reached its peak in Europe between what years?
(a) 1348-1350.
(b) 1221-1222.
(c) 1491-1497.
(d) 1675-1678.

7. 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) Tanzania.
(b) Zaire.
(c) Uganda.
(d) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.

8. What was the second social epidemic noted by the WHO?
(a) Repression of those with the plague.
(b) Denial of the plague.
(c) Acceptance of the plague.
(d) Fear of the plague.

9. What surgeon traveled to the capital of Uganda only to discover that their virus matched the AIDS epidemic?
(a) Jim McDermott.
(b) Clint Nyamurkunge.
(c) Richard Shope.
(d) Daniel Elmer Salmon.

10. Some bacteria began using spore formation to defend against antibiotics, and this worked well against ___________.
(a) DDT.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Chlorine.
(d) Citric acid.

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

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

13. In Russia, a poor health care system that was impoverished following the fall of Communism forced the reuse of _______________.
(a) Transfusion apparatus.
(b) Syringes.
(c) Surgical gloves.
(d) Specimen vials.

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

15. The hantavirus was first seen in what year?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1927.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country sought to improve its own infrastructures with little funding, relying instead on education?

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

3. In Chapter 7: "N'zara," Joe McCormick was called to _____________ during his Lassa research.

4. After at least nineteen cases with twelve deaths in New Mexico, what epidemiologist began to work on the issue with the CDC?

5. In what year did seals begin to die in mass numbers, signaling a new disease?

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