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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. The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in what year?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1940.

2. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?
(a) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(b) The Yale Public Health Academy.
(c) The University of California, Santa Cruz.
(d) The University of California, Los Angeles.

3. 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

4. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?
(a) Richmond Nutrition Association.
(b) Ribonucleic acid.
(c) Reflexive neurological antibodies.
(d) Regenerative nerve action.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?

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

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

4. In the book's Preface, the author writes that the vulnerability of the world is increased due to which of the following?

5. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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