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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Microbe Magnets and Chapter 10: Distant Thunder.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concept stated that as nations moved out of poverty and basic needs were met, scientists could use pharmaceutical and chemical tools to wipe out parasites, bacteria, and viruses?
(a) The Wealthy Cleansing.
(b) Banking on Doctors.
(c) The Health Transition.
(d) Healthy Investments.

2. What is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking?
(a) Antibody.
(b) Malnutrition.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Bulimia.

3. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.
(a) Zaire.
(b) Uganda.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Panama.

4. What CDC director was fired over the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease?
(a) David Sencer.
(b) Johnathan Mann.
(c) Friedrich Miescher.
(d) Paul Bres.

5. Soon after the funeral of the first victim in Chapter 5, the mission was filled with the disease and some of the mission nurses were sent to ______________ to recover.
(a) South Sudan.
(b) Zaire.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Thailand.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Black Plague reached its peak in Europe between what years?

2. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the study of parasites and tropical disease waned because in post-WWII health care, there was a shift to eradicate __________ from the planet.

3. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?

4. Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets" explains that prior to ___________ large cities were rare, and most of the illness threats were parasitic.

5. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.

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