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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 is a virus that is duplicated in a host cell using the reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome?
(a) Slow virus.
(b) Retrovirus.
(c) Omnivirus.
(d) Polyvirus.

2. What refers to a process by which thermal radiation is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases and then re-radiated in all directions?
(a) Greenhouse effect.
(b) Pythagoreas effect.
(c) Ohm's law.
(d) Coriolis effect.

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

4. The author notes in Chapter 16 that when humans throw off nature's balance and cause smaller diversity, what emerges?
(a) Birds.
(b) Mammals.
(c) Fungi.
(d) Microbes.

5. What disease did children with malaria contract after being required to have nearly complete blood transfusions?
(a) HIV.
(b) Junin.
(c) Schistosomiasis.
(d) Measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did seals begin to die in mass numbers, signaling a new disease?

2. When E coli 0157:H7 arrived, transmitted from contaminated meat, which argument became clear?

3. In Chapter 15: "All in Good Haste," an outbreak of a respiratory illness that caused death broke out in reservations in New Mexico in what year?

4. What does MRSA stand for?

5. In Chapter 8: "Revolution," the author writes that the medical field discovered _____________, causing things to drastically change.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the impact of resistant microbes in third world countries?

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

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

4. What obstacles did Joe McCormick find in the fight against the Lassa virus?

5. What impact did AIDS have in India?

6. How does the author describe the initial occurrences of AIDS in Chapter 11? Where were the outbreaks first seen?

7. How did drug use perpetuate the spread of AIDS?

8. What led to the outbreak of AIDS in Uganda? What was the impact of AIDS there?

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

10. What led to the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases amongst the gay community?

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