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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. Maridi is a town located in what country?
(a) South Sudan.
(b) Uganda.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?
(a) Gerald Kimbel.
(b) Roger Jamsek.
(c) Steven Lyman.
(d) Selman Waksman.
3. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.
(a) France.
(b) Uganda.
(c) Korea.
(d) Tanzania.
4. Dr. Jeanette Troup was working in _____________ when an outbreak of the Lassa virus occurred.
(a) Jos.
(b) Monrovia.
(c) Kinshasha.
(d) Lusaka.
5. According to the author in Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the CDC was being berated since how many elderly individuals died following their vaccinations for swine flu?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 14.
(d) 2.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?
2. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?
3. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.
4. Where did Ron MacKenzie return after taking blood samples in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
5. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.
Short Essay Questions
1. What led to the infection of Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie? Who saved them and how?
2. How does the author describe the AIDS epidemic in the book's Introduction? What measures were taken to monitor the disease?
3. In Chapter 2, how does author Laurie Garrett describe the evolution of healthcare following the introduction of antibiotics?
4. What led to the wane of study on parasitic disease? What discoveries were changing the way scientists viewed infectious viruses?
5. What did the Centers for Disease Control do upon learning of the Ebola epidemic?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. What led to Lily Pinneo's blood being used for antibodies?
9. Whom does the author describe in the book's Introduction? What questions does she present as indications of her life's work?
10. What did the World Health Organization discover to be the source of the Marburg disease? Who was called in for further research?
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