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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What is a nucleoside analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitor used for the treatment of HIV/AIDS?
(a) OMG.
(b) YAV.
(c) CTC.
(d) AZT.

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

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

6. Blackwater fever was caused by the overuse of what substance?
(a) Vitamin A.
(b) Quinine.
(c) Cod liver oil.
(d) Alcohol.

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

8. In the United States, the tuberculosis crisis peaked in 1830 and what other year?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1934.

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

10. A study in Africa related to TB showed its decrease was likely due to what?
(a) Democratic government.
(b) Improved housing.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Lack of rats.

11. 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) Rome.
(c) Brussels.
(d) London.

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

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

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

15. E faecium became resistant to which last available antibiotic?
(a) Psilocybin.
(b) Arithromycin.
(c) Keflex.
(d) Vancomycin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11: "Hatari: Vinidogodogo," where were the doctors following a particularly virulent strain of herpes?

2. The Aswan High Dam is an embankment dam situated across what river?

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

4. The hantavirus was first seen in what year?

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

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