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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. Where was Lily Pinneo flown after contracting the Lassa virus?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) New York.
(c) Nevada.
(d) North Dakota.
2. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1985.
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.
(a) Zaire.
(b) Tanzania.
(c) Thailand.
(d) South Sudan.
4. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
(a) Laurie Garrett
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Johnathan Mann.
(d) Fred Murphy.
5. In what year was Karl Johnson in Panama when his friend, Ron MacKenzie, headed to Bolivia to investigate a disease, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1949.
Short Answer Questions
1. What refers to compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often disease?
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?
3. 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.
4. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
5. Who discovered that the flu lived harmlessly in pig mucus, and thus, dubbed the new virus swine flu?
Short Essay Questions
1. What impact did the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease have on United States policy? Where did the outbreak occur?
2. Where was Peter Piot sent to research Ebola? Who worked with the CDC in Atlanta?
3. What were Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie's first impressions of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever? What did the disease resemble?
4. How does the author describe the initial outbreak of the Ebola virus? How many people initially died in Yambuku?
5. Who wrote the book's Preface? What does the author relate to the reader about the message and subject of the book?
6. What caused the overpopulation of field mice in San Joaquin?
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. Where did Mandrella, Cargill, and Brinkmann go after being quarantined?
9. What led to the wane of study on parasitic disease? What discoveries were changing the way scientists viewed infectious viruses?
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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