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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 term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?
(a) Pandemic.
(b) Iatrogenic.
(c) Infection.
(d) Retrovirus.

2. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to what Scottish scientist?
(a) Harold Jaffe.
(b) Friedrich Miescher.
(c) Fred Murphy.
(d) Alexander Fleming.

3. When was penicillin first discovered?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1961.

4. Kent Campbell began testing whom for the Lassa virus in Chapter 4?
(a) Iranian refugees.
(b) Canadian hospital workers.
(c) Irish nuns.
(d) German soldiers.

5. What concept stated that as nations moved out of poverty and basic needs were met, scientists could use pharmaceutical and chemical tools to wipe out parasites, bacteria, and viruses?
(a) The Health Transition.
(b) Banking on Doctors.
(c) Healthy Investments.
(d) The Wealthy Cleansing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Researchers were able to track the outbreak of the Lassa virus to a woman from ______________.

2. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?

3. In what country was Jordi Casals born?

4. The first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease occurred during what month in the year 1976?

5. What expert of viruses at WHO was dispatched to Maridi to gather samples in Chapter 5: "Yambuku"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What did Karl Johnson contract in the beginning of Chapter 1: "Machupo"? Who had traveled to Bolivia and what did this scientist find upon his arrival?

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

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

6. Where, aside from Jos, did Lassa virus epidemics occur? What was the source of the disease?

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

8. 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?

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

10. What impact did the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease have on United States policy? Where did the outbreak occur?

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