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

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

3. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.
(a) Swine Flu.
(b) Malaria.
(c) HIV.
(d) The Black Typhus.

4. 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) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 14.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Following Kent Campbell's recovery, he was sent to investigate the Lassa outbreak in ______________.

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

3. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

4. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?

5. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to Lily Pinneo's blood being used for antibodies?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Del Conn contract disease while studying in Zaire? What difficulties did he encounter in leaving the country?

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