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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: Thirdworldization.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called ____________.
(a) Microbes.
(b) Genes.
(c) Nucleotides.
(d) Antibodies.

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

3. Johnathan Mann's team advised global education, but in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic, many countries began to do what to immigrants with the disease?
(a) Deport them.
(b) Execute them.
(c) Imprison them.
(d) Quarentine them.

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

5. A study in Africa related to TB showed its decrease was likely due to what?
(a) Lack of rats.
(b) Improved housing.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Democratic government.

Short Answer Questions

1. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?

2. The outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 1976 forced through the bills regarding _____________.

3. An increase in sand flies resulted in an increase in what disease, according to the author in Chapter 9?

4. In Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the author writes that the influenza virus developed mutation strategies that made ___________ nearly impossible.

5. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the study of parasites and tropical disease waned because in post-WWII health care, there was a shift to eradicate __________ from the planet.

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