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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often disease?
(a) Arbitration.
(b) Quarantine.
(c) Extermination.
(d) Contingency.

2. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1977.

3. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?
(a) Alexander Fleming.
(b) Joe McCormick.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Friedrich Miescher.

4. The first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease occurred during what month in the year 1976?
(a) September.
(b) July.
(c) May.
(d) December.

5. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1957.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 5: "Yambuku," the author describes a man in Yambuku who was treated for an illness like _____________.

2. DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called ____________.

3. Where was Peter Piot sent to study the virus later known as Ebola?

4. In what year did a type of swine flu strike in Texas simultaneously with another less deadly strain?

5. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the study of parasites and tropical disease waned because in post-WWII health care, there was a shift to eradicate __________ from the planet.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who wrote the book's Preface? What does the author relate to the reader about the message and subject of the book?

2. What viruses made impacts in the United States, according to the author in Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial"? When did they occur?

3. In Chapter 4, who was transported to Germany following infection of the Lassa virus?

4. What led to the death of Dr. Troup? Where was the source of the virus determined to be from?

5. What did the World Health Organization discover to be the source of the Marburg disease? Who was called in for further research?

6. What did the Centers for Disease Control do upon learning of the Ebola epidemic?

7. How did Joe McCormick help to eradicate a resistant form of meningitis?

8. How did Del Conn contract disease while studying in Zaire? What difficulties did he encounter in leaving the country?

9. Where did Mandrella, Cargill, and Brinkmann go after being quarantined?

10. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the source of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever? What was done to eradicate the disease?

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