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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The WHO Global Program on AIDS noted three social epidemics within the biological one of AIDS. What was the first of these social epidemics?
(a) Denial of the plague.
(b) Acceptance of the plague.
(c) Fear of the plague.
(d) Repression of those with the plague.

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

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

4. What does MRSA stand for?
(a) Muscular respritory stimulated activity.
(b) Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus.
(c) Microbial reproductive static amoebae.
(d) Mammalian reproductive staphylococcus aureus.

5. 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.

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

7. East and West Germany merged in what year, causing AIDS to strike fiercely?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1989.

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

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

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

11. The Aswan High Dam is an embankment dam situated across what river?
(a) The Ganges River.
(b) The Nile River.
(c) The Mississippi River.
(d) The Amazon River.

12. The Great Plague of London killed approximately how many people?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 630,000.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the second social epidemic noted by the WHO?

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

3. Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets" explains that prior to ___________ large cities were rare, and most of the illness threats were parasitic.

4. 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?

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

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