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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When E coli 0157:H7 arrived, transmitted from contaminated meat, which argument became clear?
(a) Using pesticides.
(b) Growing fruit crops.
(c) Over-drugging farm animals.
(d) Famine.

2. Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets" explains that prior to ___________ large cities were rare, and most of the illness threats were parasitic.
(a) 2000 B.C.
(b) 1500 A.D.
(c) 500 A.D.
(d) 6000 B.C.

3. To what drugs was the herpes epidemic resistant?
(a) Antibacterial.
(b) Antiviral.
(c) Omnibacterial.
(d) Superviral.

4. Some bacteria began using spore formation to defend against antibiotics, and this worked well against ___________.
(a) Citric acid.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Chlorine.
(d) DDT.

5. Leprosy has affected humanity for over how many years?
(a) 7,500.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 1,000.

6. The Aswan High Dam was constructed during what decade?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1980s.

7. What surgeon traveled to the capital of Uganda only to discover that their virus matched the AIDS epidemic?
(a) Clint Nyamurkunge.
(b) Richard Shope.
(c) Jim McDermott.
(d) Daniel Elmer Salmon.

8. In the United States, the tuberculosis crisis peaked in 1830 and what other year?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1922.

9. Joe McCormick met with scientists from what country that wanted samples of the Lassa virus?
(a) The Soviet Union.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Australia.
(d) The United States.

10. In Africa, Peter Piot recalled seeing a case similar to the early AIDS cases in the 1970s, and he found three more cases on the books, all from __________.
(a) Tanzania.
(b) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(c) Zaire.
(d) Uganda.

11. What, along with other chemicals, was used to eradicate the mosquito causing an increase in sand flies?
(a) TCW.
(b) DDT.
(c) DMR.
(d) LSD.

12. French and Belgium scientists began to suspect the AIDS disease was a virus with what origins?
(a) African.
(b) European.
(c) Australian.
(d) American.

13. Lyme disease is an emerging infectious disease caused by at least three species of bacteria belonging to what genus?
(a) Borrelia.
(b) Junin.
(c) Pneumocystis.
(d) Schistosomiasis.

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

15. The genus Salmonella was named after what American veterinary pathologist?
(a) Ron MacKenzie.
(b) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(c) Joe McCormick.
(d) Jim McDermott.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kaposi's sarcoma was originally described by Moritz Kaposi in what year?

2. The hantavirus was first discovered during what war?

3. In Chapter 14, Johnathan Mann of the WHO Global Program on AIDS addressed a gathering of over a thousand in what city?

4. Lyme disease was first discovered when a number of cases were identified in what year?

5. The WHO Global Program on AIDS noted three social epidemics within the biological one of AIDS. What was the first of these social epidemics?

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