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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. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?
(a) Johnathan Mann.
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Selman Waksman.
(d) Joel Breman.

2. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?
(a) Roger Jamsek.
(b) Gerald Kimbel.
(c) Steven Lyman.
(d) Selman Waksman.

3. What does CDC stand for?
(a) Cancer and Disease Center.
(b) Center for Destroying Cancer.
(c) Centers for Disease Control.
(d) Corporate Disease Control.

4. What profession did Karl Johnson's fiancee have, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Neurologist.
(b) Virologist.
(c) Oncologist.
(d) Dermatologist.

5. Following Kent Campbell's recovery, he was sent to investigate the Lassa outbreak in ______________.
(a) Germany.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?

2. Within how much time was the virus now called Manchupo virus eradicated after Karl Johnson's team discovered the culprit of the epidemic in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. Soon after the funeral of the first victim in Chapter 5, the mission was filled with the disease and some of the mission nurses were sent to ______________ to recover.

4. When was penicillin first discovered?

5. Peter Piot at CDC processed the samples sent to him in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," and tests showed the virus was neither ________________ nor anything else they had seen.

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, how does author Laurie Garrett describe the evolution of healthcare following the introduction of antibiotics?

2. How is the author Laurie Garrett described in the book's introduction and bio? Where did Garrett study? What are common themes in her works?

3. What led to the wane of study on parasitic disease? What discoveries were changing the way scientists viewed infectious viruses?

4. What backlash did the CDC meet after vaccinating against swine flu?

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

6. How does the author describe the initial outbreak of the Ebola virus? How many people initially died in Yambuku?

7. What were Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie's first impressions of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever? What did the disease resemble?

8. With whom did Karl Johnson work to develop a safety measure for the doctors in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"? What was found in San Joaquin?

9. What was the CDC's response to the swine flu epidemic? What resistance was met?

10. What is the central focus of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance? What is the author's message to the reader as established in the Preface and Introduction?

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