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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What profession did Karl Johnson's fiancee have, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Virologist.
(b) Oncologist.
(c) Neurologist.
(d) Dermatologist.

2. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?
(a) Schistosomiasis.
(b) Bolivian hemorrhagic fever.
(c) Pneumocystis pneumonia.
(d) Yellow fever.

3. 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?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1991.

4. What was the name of Karl Johnson's fiancee who became ill after visiting him in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Wilma Randolph.
(b) Selman Waksman.
(c) Lily Pinneo.
(d) Pat Webb.

5. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Junin.
(b) The Black Typhus.
(c) Measles.
(d) Swine Flu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?

2. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

3. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of an uncle named ___________.

4. What does AIDS stand for?

5. When was penicillin first discovered?

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