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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. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1960's.
(c) 1970's.
(d) 1950's.

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

3. When was the term antibiotic first coined?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1906.

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

5. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to what Scottish scientist?
(a) Harold Jaffe.
(b) Friedrich Miescher.
(c) Fred Murphy.
(d) Alexander Fleming.

Short Answer Questions

1. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?

2. When the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens, many critics believed that many emerging diseases were not __________, according to the author in the Introduction?

3. What does the acronym WHO stand for?

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

5. What does AIDS stand for?

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