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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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?
(a) 2100.
(b) 2050.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1995.

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

5. Lyme disease was first discovered when a number of cases were identified in what year?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1928.

6. 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) Quarentine them.
(c) Execute them.
(d) Imprison them.

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

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

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

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

11. In Chapter 15: "All in Good Haste," an outbreak of a respiratory illness that caused death broke out in reservations in New Mexico in what year?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1993.
(d) 2002.

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

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

14. After at least nineteen cases with twelve deaths in New Mexico, what epidemiologist began to work on the issue with the CDC?
(a) Paul Bres.
(b) Don Francis.
(c) Fred Murphy.
(d) Jay Butler.

15. Kaposi's sarcoma was originally described by Moritz Kaposi in what year?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1842.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hantaviruses are carried by what type of animal?

2. In Chapter 10: "Distant Thunder," the author writes that Harvey Milk was assassinated in what year?

3. The hantavirus was first seen in what year?

4. A study in Africa related to TB showed its decrease was likely due to what?

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

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