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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. The author notes in Chapter 16 that when humans throw off nature's balance and cause smaller diversity, what emerges?
(a) Birds.
(b) Microbes.
(c) Fungi.
(d) Mammals.

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

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

5. 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) 1993.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1988.

6. What refers to an epidemic of an infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region?
(a) Arythmia.
(b) Extermination.
(c) Pandemic.
(d) Sociopath.

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

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

9. 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.

10. What is a virus that is duplicated in a host cell using the reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome?
(a) Omnivirus.
(b) Polyvirus.
(c) Slow virus.
(d) Retrovirus.

11. The epidemics of what disease increased due to the Aswan High Dam inhibiting the natural fluctuations in water height?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Swine Flu.
(d) Schistosomiasis.

12. The Aswan High Dam was constructed during what decade?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

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

14. 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) 2000.
(b) 2050.
(c) 2100.
(d) 1995.

15. What is a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii?
(a) Junin.
(b) Swine Flu.
(c) Pneumocystis pneumonia.
(d) Schistosomiasis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Blackwater fever was caused by the overuse of what substance?

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

3. In the United States, the tuberculosis crisis peaked in 1830 and what other year?

4. An increase in sand flies resulted in an increase in what disease, according to the author in Chapter 9?

5. French and Belgium scientists began to suspect the AIDS disease was a virus with what origins?

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