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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. Hantaviruses are carried by what type of animal?
(a) Rodents.
(b) Birds.
(c) Bats.
(d) Lizards.

2. According to the "Rivet Hypothesis," what happens to the ecosystem as each species is removed?
(a) Less stable.
(b) More stable.
(c) Full of holes.
(d) A desert.

3. East and West Germany merged in what year, causing AIDS to strike fiercely?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1984.

4. Which United States Representative showed that the poor areas of India were already seeing an epidemic by 1991?
(a) Ron MacKenzie.
(b) Jim McDermott.
(c) Fred Murphy.
(d) Alexander Fleming.

5. In China, the use of what drug was encouraging AIDS to spread, according to the author in Chapter 14?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) LSD.
(d) Methamphetamine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets" explains that prior to ___________ large cities were rare, and most of the illness threats were parasitic.

2. The WHO created the Declaration of Alma-Ata which sought to unite the world in a push to create healthy living conditions for everyone by what year?

3. The hantavirus was first seen in what year?

4. The Aswan High Dam was constructed during what decade?

5. In a small village in Uganda, young women began becoming ill following sex with a traveling salesman and the disease was dubbed ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the reasons that poverty stricken areas encouraged drug resistant bacteria?

2. With whom did Joe McCormick meet to discuss the Lassa virus? What was this relationship like?

3. How does the author describe the outbreak of Lyme disease? How did human interaction impact the disease?

4. What was the message delivered by Johnathan Mann in Chapter 14: "Thirdworldization"? To whom did he speak?

5. How did the discovery of genetic engineering change the views of the scientific community?

6. How does the author describe the Rivet Hypothesis in Chapter 16?

7. How did many nations respond to the AIDS epidemic?

8. What are retroviruses and oncogenes? What was discovered about them in Chapter 8: "Revolution"?

9. How does the author correlate the development of urban centers to the growth of disease in Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets"?

10. When was the hantavirus first discovered? What was the source of the epidemics?

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