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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Aswan High Dam was constructed during what decade?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

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

4. In Chapter 14, Johnathan Mann of the WHO Global Program on AIDS addressed a gathering of over a thousand in what city?
(a) Rome.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Brussels.
(d) London.

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

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

7. In Chapter 10: "Distant Thunder," the author writes that Harvey Milk was assassinated in what year?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1949.

8. The epidemics of what disease increased due to the Aswan High Dam inhibiting the natural fluctuations in water height?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Swine Flu.
(c) Schistosomiasis.
(d) Yellow fever.

9. According to the author in Chapter 13, what were vital to cell transformation?
(a) Plasmids and transposons.
(b) Protein inhibitors.
(c) Amino acids.
(d) Antiviral cascades.

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

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

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

13. 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."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the "Rivet Hypothesis," what happens to the ecosystem as each species is removed?

3. The Uganda-Tanzania War took place during what years?

4. The genus Salmonella was named after what American veterinary pathologist?

5. The WHO created the Declaration of Alma-Ata which sought to unite the world in a push to create healthy living conditions for everyone by what year?

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