Quiz created: 091101

Epidemic Diseases (2)

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The following questions are based on the essay "Epidemic Diseases." In some cases more than one of the four diseases may correctly answer the question, but only one is the best answer given the contents of the essay.
1. Which disease continues to cause thousands of death a year in the United States?
cholera  flu  plague  smallpox  No Answer
2. Which disease is believed to have killed about 20 million people in 1918-19?
cholera  flu  plague  smallpox  No Answer
3. Which disease is spread today by prairie dogs? cholera
flu  plague  smallpox  No Answer
4. Which disease is usually transmitted by infected drinking water?
cholera  flu  plague  smallpox  No Answer
5. Which disease kills by respiratory failure?
cholera  flu  plague  smallpox  No Answer
6. Which disease produces especially foul-smelling open sores?
cholera  flu  plague  smallpox  No Answer
7. Which disease was successfully eradicated by 1980?
cholera  flu  plague  smallpox  No Answer

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