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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Into the Woods.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?
(a) Marburg, Germany.
(b) Sussex, England.
(c) Sydney, Australia.
(d) Toronto, Canada.

3. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of an uncle named ___________.
(a) Gerald.
(b) Stephen.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Maurice.

4. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Medical juggernauts.
(b) Disease cowboys.
(c) Scientific geniouses.
(d) Viral explorers.

5. Within how much time was the virus now called Manchupo virus eradicated after Karl Johnson's team discovered the culprit of the epidemic in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 12 days.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 1 year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What leader in infectious disease was called in to test the deadly virus against samples of thousands of viruses in his lab in Chapter 3: "Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides"?

2. Jordi Casals proved that the Lassa virus was spread through ______________.

3. When Bernhard Mandrella went in for treatment for the Lassa virus, he was given blood from whom?

4. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.

5. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.

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