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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: Hatari: Vinidogodogo and Chapter 12: Feminine Hygiene.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bernhard Mandrella went in for treatment for the Lassa virus, he was given blood from whom?
(a) Lily Pinneo.
(b) Jordi Casals.
(c) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(d) Pat Webb.

2. Following Kent Campbell's recovery, he was sent to investigate the Lassa outbreak in ______________.
(a) France.
(b) Poland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Spain.

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

4. What CDC director was fired over the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease?
(a) Friedrich Miescher.
(b) Johnathan Mann.
(c) David Sencer.
(d) Paul Bres.

5. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?
(a) The LA Times.
(b) USA Today.
(c) Newsday.
(d) The Chicago Sun Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. German authorities began to argue with the authorities of ___________ over the Lassa virus in Chapter 4.

2. The Uganda-Tanzania War led to the overthrow of whose regime?

3. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.

4. Bernhard Mandrella treated a coworker and sent blood which confirmed the Lassa virus to __________.

5. Dr. Jeanette Troup was working in _____________ when an outbreak of the Lassa virus occurred.

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