View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which United States Representative showed that the poor areas of India were already seeing an epidemic by 1991?
(a) Fred Murphy.
(b) Ron MacKenzie.
(c) Alexander Fleming.
(d) Jim McDermott.

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

4. In a small village in Uganda, young women began becoming ill following sex with a traveling salesman and the disease was dubbed ______________.
(a) "Aristotle's disease."
(b) "Juliana's disease."
(c) "Rachel's disease."
(d) "Aphrodite's disease."

5. 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) Slow virus.
(c) Omnivirus.
(d) Polyvirus.

6. French and Belgium scientists began to suspect the AIDS disease was a virus with what origins?
(a) African.
(b) American.
(c) European.
(d) Australian.

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

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

10. The French finally announced they had discovered what virus believed to cause AIDS?
(a) LAV.
(b) GEP.
(c) YRBD.
(d) TAM.

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

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

13. Lyme disease is an emerging infectious disease caused by at least three species of bacteria belonging to what genus?
(a) Borrelia.
(b) Schistosomiasis.
(c) Pneumocystis.
(d) Junin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. East and West Germany merged in what year, causing AIDS to strike fiercely?

3. Lyme disease was first discovered when a number of cases were identified in what year?

4. What is a nucleoside analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitor used for the treatment of HIV/AIDS?

5. In what year did the CDC call the first International AIDS Conference?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 385 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample