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

2. Joe McCormick was dispatched to what location to investigate the epidemic of the Ebola virus?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Lusaka.
(c) Kinshasa.
(d) Cairo.

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

4. What was the confirmed source of the first epidemic of Legionnaire's disease?
(a) Air conditioning.
(b) Mosquitos.
(c) Mouse feces.
(d) Bad plumbing.

5. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Quito.
(c) Bogata.
(d) Magdalena.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the woman that researchers tracked the outbreak of the Lassa virus to had been hospitalized, how many people became ill in Chapter 4?

2. Legionnaires' disease acquired its name when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention in what city?

3. In the book's Preface, the author writes that the vulnerability of the world is increased due to which of the following?

4. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?

5. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the source of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever? What was done to eradicate the disease?

3. What did the Centers for Disease Control do upon learning of the Ebola epidemic?

4. How did Del Conn contract disease while studying in Zaire? What difficulties did he encounter in leaving the country?

5. How is modernization defined? What are the effects of modernization according to the author in the Introduction?

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. How does the author describe the AIDS epidemic in the book's Introduction? What measures were taken to monitor the disease?

8. Where did Mandrella, Cargill, and Brinkmann go after being quarantined?

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

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

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