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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With the first signs of the AIDS epidemic, the CDC quickly created a quiet division to work on the problem, while who traveled to see San Fransisco first hand in Chapter 11: "Hatari: Vinidogodogo"?
(a) Merl Kuns.
(b) Harold Jaffe.
(c) Friedrich Miescher.
(d) Lily Pinneo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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) Polyvirus.
(c) Retrovirus.
(d) Omnivirus.

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

13. Joe McCormick met with scientists from what country that wanted samples of the Lassa virus?
(a) Australia.
(b) The Soviet Union.
(c) Brazil.
(d) The United States.

14. In what state is the town of Lyme, for which Lyme disease was named, located?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Alaska.
(c) California.
(d) Alabama.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What refers to a process by which thermal radiation is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases and then re-radiated in all directions?

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

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