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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 5: "Yambuku," the author describes a man in Yambuku who was treated for an illness like _____________.
(a) Measles.
(b) Junin.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Swine Flu.

2. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.
(a) HIV.
(b) Swine Flu.
(c) Malaria.
(d) The Black Typhus.

3. Within how much time was the virus now called Manchupo virus eradicated after Karl Johnson's team discovered the culprit of the epidemic in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 12 days.
(d) 2 months.

4. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1914.

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

6. What does the acronym WHO stand for?
(a) Wholesome and Holistic Outlook.
(b) World Health Organization.
(c) Wellness and Health Organization.
(d) Women's Health Operation.

7. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?
(a) Joel Breman.
(b) Selman Waksman.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Johnathan Mann.

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

9. Bernhard Mandrella treated a coworker and sent blood which confirmed the Lassa virus to __________.
(a) The CIA.
(b) The CDC.
(c) The WHO.
(d) The FBI.

10. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.
(a) Conservative.
(b) Federalist.
(c) Communist.
(d) Liberal.

11. Where did Adam Cargill go after being released from a holding facility in Chapter 4?
(a) Marburg, Germany.
(b) Warsaw, Poland.
(c) Sussex, England.
(d) Hamburg, Germany.

12. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.
(a) Zaire.
(b) Uganda.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Panama.

13. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.
(a) Antivirals.
(b) Disease.
(c) Mutations.
(d) Antibodies.

14. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.
(a) Malaria.
(b) The Black Typhus.
(c) Schistosomiasis.
(d) Measles.

15. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
(a) Laurie Garrett
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Johnathan Mann.
(d) Fred Murphy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?

2. When was the term antibiotic first coined?

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

4. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?

5. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

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