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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 was the third social epidemic noted by WHO?
(a) Denial of the plague.
(b) Acceptance of the plague.
(c) Fear of the plague.
(d) Repression of those with the plague.

2. The Aswan High Dam is an embankment dam situated across what river?
(a) The Mississippi River.
(b) The Ganges River.
(c) The Amazon River.
(d) The Nile River.

3. The epidemics of what disease increased due to the Aswan High Dam inhibiting the natural fluctuations in water height?
(a) Schistosomiasis.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Swine Flu.
(d) Yellow fever.

4. With the first signs of the AIDS epidemic, the CDC quickly created a quiet division to work on the problem, while who traveled to see San Fransisco first hand in Chapter 11: "Hatari: Vinidogodogo"?
(a) Friedrich Miescher.
(b) Merl Kuns.
(c) Harold Jaffe.
(d) Lily Pinneo.

5. The French finally announced they had discovered what virus believed to cause AIDS?
(a) YRBD.
(b) GEP.
(c) TAM.
(d) LAV.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what year did the World Bank see the need for better health care in poorly developed countries?

2. In Africa, Peter Piot recalled seeing a case similar to the early AIDS cases in the 1970s, and he found three more cases on the books, all from __________.

3. In Chapter 7: "N'zara," Joe McCormick was called to _____________ during his Lassa research.

4. The hantavirus was first seen in what year?

5. What country had further issues with the AIDS epidemic in that two separate strains of the disease were erupting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the impact of antibiotics given to animals, as discussed in Chapter 13: "Revenge of the Germs"?

2. What three social epidemics related to the biological epidemic of AIDS are observed in Chapter 14: "Thirdworldization"?

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

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

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

6. What was the CDC's response to the initial outbreak of AIDS? Where had similar cases been seen?

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

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

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

10. How does the author describe the correlation between tampons and outbreaks of TSS in Chapter 12?

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