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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to what Scottish scientist?
2. The first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease occurred during what month in the year 1976?
3. Where was Lily Pinneo flown after contracting the Lassa virus?
4. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
5. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the initial outbreak of the Ebola virus? How many people initially died in Yambuku?
2. What did Karl Johnson contract in the beginning of Chapter 1: "Machupo"? Who had traveled to Bolivia and what did this scientist find upon his arrival?
3. What led to Lily Pinneo's blood being used for antibodies?
4. How did Del Conn contract disease while studying in Zaire? What difficulties did he encounter in leaving the country?
5. How did Joe McCormick help to eradicate a resistant form of meningitis?
6. What were Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie's first impressions of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever? What did the disease resemble?
7. How is modernization defined? What are the effects of modernization according to the author in the Introduction?
8. How does the author describe the AIDS epidemic in the book's Introduction? What measures were taken to monitor the disease?
9. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the source of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever? What was done to eradicate the disease?
10. Whom does the author describe in the book's Introduction? What questions does she present as indications of her life's work?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define and discuss genetic engineering, slow viruses, retroviruses and oncogenes. When did the greatest developments in genetic engineering take place? How did these developments change the way scientists viewed viruses and bacteria?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the history of the World Bank and its involvement in lending for modernization in underdeveloped nations. What were the impacts of these developments? What obstacles did Joe McCormick encounter in his work in Africa with the Lassa virus? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and analyze the work of Dr. Jeanette Troup and Lily Pinneo. Where were Troup and Pinneo when they encountered the Lassa virus? Why did Pinneo recover from her infection? Who was given transfusions of Pinneo's blood and what reaction did they have?
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