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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. In what year did the worst flu epidemic in the twentieth century strike, killing millions?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1776.

2. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Peter Piot.
(b) Merl Kuns.
(c) Jordi Casals.
(d) Don Francis.

3. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?
(a) Destructive neurological action.
(b) Dental nerve activity.
(c) Deterioration of nerve acid.
(d) Deoxyribonucleic acid.

4. The Republic of Liberia is located on what continent?
(a) Europe.
(b) Africa.
(c) Asia.
(d) South America.

5. In what year did a type of swine flu strike in Texas simultaneously with another less deadly strain?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1976.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

2. When the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens, many critics believed that many emerging diseases were not __________, according to the author in the Introduction?

3. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?

4. Who discovered that the flu lived harmlessly in pig mucus, and thus, dubbed the new virus swine flu?

5. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. What viruses made impacts in the United States, according to the author in Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial"? When did they occur?

6. In Chapter 4, who was transported to Germany following infection of the Lassa virus?

7. Where did Mandrella, Cargill, and Brinkmann go after being quarantined?

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

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

10. 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?

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