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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what country was Jordi Casals born?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Spain.
(d) Egypt.

2. When was penicillin first discovered?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1961.

3. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1963.

4. Near what United States city is the CDC headquartered?
(a) Atlanta, GA.
(b) Albany, NY.
(c) Seattle, WA.
(d) Phoenix, AZ.

5. Dr. Jeanette Troup was working in _____________ when an outbreak of the Lassa virus occurred.
(a) Jos.
(b) Monrovia.
(c) Lusaka.
(d) Kinshasha.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called ____________.

3. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.

4. Laurie Garrett earned her undergraduate degree in biology from what institution?

5. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.

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