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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Health Transition and Chapter 3: Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Eagles.
(b) Cats.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Mouse traps.

3. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1981.

4. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Peter Piot.
(b) Al Wieden.
(c) Harold Jaffe.
(d) Karl Johnson.

5. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?
(a) Deoxyribonucleic acid.
(b) Dental nerve activity.
(c) Deterioration of nerve acid.
(d) Destructive neurological action.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

2. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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

4. What does AIDS stand for?

5. What does CDC stand for?

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