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

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

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

4. The WHO Global Program on AIDS noted three social epidemics within the biological one of AIDS. What was the first of these social epidemics?
(a) Acceptance of the plague.
(b) Fear of the plague.
(c) Denial of the plague.
(d) Repression of those with the plague.

5. A study in Africa related to TB showed its decrease was likely due to what?
(a) Improved housing.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Democratic government.
(d) Lack of rats.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 13, what were vital to cell transformation?

3. Lyme disease was first discovered when a number of cases were identified in what year?

4. What did GRID stand for when it was first applied to the AIDS epidemic?

5. Which United States Representative showed that the poor areas of India were already seeing an epidemic by 1991?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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