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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.
(a) Microbes.
(b) Cats.
(c) Rats.
(d) Monkeys.

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

3. In what year was Karl Johnson in Panama when his friend, Ron MacKenzie, headed to Bolivia to investigate a disease, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1981.

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

5. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?
(a) 1960's.
(b) 1970's.
(c) 1950's.
(d) 1980s.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

4. What CDC director was fired over the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease?

5. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the initial outbreak of the Ebola virus? How many people initially died in Yambuku?

2. In Chapter 2, how does author Laurie Garrett describe the evolution of healthcare following the introduction of antibiotics?

3. Where was Peter Piot sent to research Ebola? Who worked with the CDC in Atlanta?

4. Who wrote the book's Preface? What does the author relate to the reader about the message and subject of the book?

5. How does the author describe the initial outbreak of Marburg disease? What were the symptoms of the disease?

6. What is the central focus of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance? What is the author's message to the reader as established in the Preface and Introduction?

7. What caused the overpopulation of field mice in San Joaquin?

8. How was Lily Pinneo exposed to the Lassa virus? Where was she sent after being infected?

9. How did Joe McCormick help to eradicate a resistant form of meningitis?

10. What led to the infection of Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie? Who saved them and how?

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