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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the Great Plague hit London?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1428.
(c) 1557.
(d) 1293.

2. The Great Plague of London killed approximately how many people?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 630,000.
(d) 25,000.

3. In what year did the CDC call the first International AIDS Conference?
(a) 1985.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1996.

4. The Uganda-Tanzania War led to the overthrow of whose regime?
(a) Idi Amin's.
(b) Oto Eron's.
(c) Aba Inor's.
(d) Eze Oman's.

5. In Chapter 15: "All in Good Haste," an outbreak of a respiratory illness that caused death broke out in reservations in New Mexico in what year?
(a) 1993.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1996.

6. In what year did seals begin to die in mass numbers, signaling a new disease?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1965.
(d) 2004.

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

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

9. The epidemics of what disease increased due to the Aswan High Dam inhibiting the natural fluctuations in water height?
(a) Schistosomiasis.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Swine Flu.

10. Blackwater fever was caused by the overuse of what substance?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Quinine.
(c) Cod liver oil.
(d) Vitamin A.

11. The author notes in Chapter 16 that when humans throw off nature's balance and cause smaller diversity, what emerges?
(a) Fungi.
(b) Mammals.
(c) Birds.
(d) Microbes.

12. What was the second social epidemic noted by the WHO?
(a) Denial of the plague.
(b) Fear of the plague.
(c) Acceptance of the plague.
(d) Repression of those with the plague.

13. The Uganda-Tanzania War took place during what years?
(a) 1977-1981.
(b) 1967-1971.
(c) 1978-1979.
(d) 1982-1985.

14. What does PID refer to?
(a) Personal identification document.
(b) Pelvic inflammatory disease.
(c) Psychological information deflection.
(d) Periodic immune deficiency.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what drugs was the herpes epidemic resistant?

2. The WHO created the Declaration of Alma-Ata which sought to unite the world in a push to create healthy living conditions for everyone by what year?

3. What is a nucleoside analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitor used for the treatment of HIV/AIDS?

4. What country had further issues with the AIDS epidemic in that two separate strains of the disease were erupting?

5. 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 __________.

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