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

2. What country sought to improve its own infrastructures with little funding, relying instead on education?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) The Soviet Union.
(d) Tanzania.

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 13, what were vital to cell transformation?
(a) Plasmids and transposons.
(b) Antiviral cascades.
(c) Amino acids.
(d) Protein inhibitors.

5. In Chapter 7: "N'zara," Joe McCormick was called to _____________ during his Lassa research.
(a) Lusaka.
(b) Monrovia.
(c) Kinshasha.
(d) Magdalena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a potentially fatal illness caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes?

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

3. In China, the use of what drug was encouraging AIDS to spread, according to the author in Chapter 14?

4. According to the "Rivet Hypothesis," what happens to the ecosystem as each species is removed?

5. To what drugs was the herpes epidemic resistant?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What impact did AIDS have in India?

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

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

5. What was the impact of tuberculosis in America? What improved conditions?

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

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

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

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

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

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