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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Machupo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
(a) Johnathan Mann.
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Fred Murphy.
(d) Laurie Garrett

2. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.
(a) Tanzania.
(b) France.
(c) Korea.
(d) Uganda.

3. Laurie Garrett earned her undergraduate degree in biology from what institution?
(a) The University of California, Santa Cruz.
(b) The University of California, Los Angeles.
(c) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(d) The Yale Public Health Academy.

4. 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) 1 year.
(d) 2 months.

5. What does CDC stand for?
(a) Cancer and Disease Center.
(b) Centers for Disease Control.
(c) Corporate Disease Control.
(d) Center for Destroying Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?

2. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.

3. What does the acronym WHO stand for?

4. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

5. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?

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