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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. What leader in infectious disease was called in to test the deadly virus against samples of thousands of viruses in his lab in Chapter 3: "Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides"?
(a) Uwe Brinkmann.
(b) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(c) Jodi Casals.
(d) Clint Nyamurkunge.

2. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.
(a) Measles.
(b) Schistosomiasis.
(c) Malaria.
(d) The Black Typhus.

3. Following Kent Campbell's recovery, he was sent to investigate the Lassa outbreak in ______________.
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Poland.

4. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?
(a) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(b) The University of California, Los Angeles.
(c) The University of California, Santa Cruz.
(d) The Yale Public Health Academy.

5. Where did Ron MacKenzie return after taking blood samples in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Ecuador.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Panama.
(d) Brazil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What expert of viruses at WHO was dispatched to Maridi to gather samples in Chapter 5: "Yambuku"?

2. Where did Uwe Brinkmann go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?

3. What is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking?

4. When was the CDC founded?

5. Laurie Garrett earned her undergraduate degree in biology from what institution?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Lily Pinneo exposed to the Lassa virus? Where was she sent after being infected?

2. Whom does the author describe in the book's Introduction? What questions does she present as indications of her life's work?

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

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

5. 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?

6. What did Karl Johnson contract in the beginning of Chapter 1: "Machupo"? Who had traveled to Bolivia and what did this scientist find upon his arrival?

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

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

9. Where, aside from Jos, did Lassa virus epidemics occur? What was the source of the disease?

10. How does the author describe the initial outbreak of Marburg disease? What were the symptoms of the disease?

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