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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. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.
(a) Malaria.
(b) Dengue fever.
(c) HIV.
(d) Yellow fever.

2. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?
(a) Sydney, Australia.
(b) Marburg, Germany.
(c) Toronto, Canada.
(d) Sussex, England.

3. Where was Lily Pinneo flown after contracting the Lassa virus?
(a) New York.
(b) North Dakota.
(c) Nevada.
(d) New Hampshire.

4. When was the CDC founded?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1984.

5. In the book's Preface, the author writes that the vulnerability of the world is increased due to which of the following?
(a) Isolation of populations.
(b) Modern travel.
(c) Decreased populations.
(d) Human evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.

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

4. German authorities began to argue with the authorities of ___________ over the Lassa virus in Chapter 4.

5. The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in what year?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is modernization defined? What are the effects of modernization according to the author in the Introduction?

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. What led to the infection of Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie? Who saved them and how?

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

9. 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?

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

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