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Questions

1. The infectious microscopic organisms that make people sick are called

Eukaryotes
Pathogens
Animalcules
Dendrons

2. The __________ immune system attacks specific pathogens when they enter our bodies.

Dedicated
Homologous
Innate
Adaptive

3. Which of the following has NOT been proposed by scholars as an explanation of the disappearance of leprosy from most of Europe at the end of the Middle Ages?

As the population of medieval Europe grew, tuberculosis became more widespread, and infection with tuberculosis conveys immunity to leprosy.
Lepers were vulnerable to other infectious diseases and, when the bubonic plague struck Europe beginning in the fourteenth century, most lepers died of it.
Disruptions to society caused by the bubonic plague meant that less money was contributed to leprosaria and fewer people were left to care for lepers, which increased the mortality rates of lepers.
As physicians became more widely involved in diagnosing people suspected of having leprosy, fewer incorrect diagnoses were made, and, as fewer people with other skin conditions were mistakenly diagnosed with leprosy, the numbers of lepers appeared to decline.

4. When a disease recurs frequently in a particular place, like cholera in India, for example, it is said to be

An outbreak
Infectious
Epidemic
Endemic

5. Which of the following best describes the Christian approach to medicine by the third and fourth centuries?

Christians believed that only prayer could heal the sick and rejected Greco-Roman medical practices such as Galenism.
In the western part of the Roman empire, Christian healers placed more emphasis on Greco-Roman medicine while in the eastern part of the empire, Christian healers relied almost exclusively on prayer and exorcism.
Christian healers destroyed all remaining traces of both Asclepian medicine and Galenism because they regarded both as pagan.
Some Christian thinkers advocated the adoption of Greco-Roman healing practices, especially those associated with Galenism.

6. When a far greater number of people in an area become infected with a particular disease than normally do so, this is called __________.

Endemic
An outbreak
Infectious
An epidemic

7. What effect does leprosy have on the body?

It destroys the myelin around nerves, which leads to loss of feeling in the skin
It destroys hemoglobin in the blood, which decrease the ability of red blood cells to carry oxygen
It causes the cells of the brain to shrink
It weakens heart valves so they are not able to contract

8. A disease that spreads to many countries and threatens to infect the whole world is

A pandemic
An outbreak
Endemic
An epidemic

9. Which of the following are NOT pathogens?

Fungi
Toxins
Bacteria
Viruses

10. In what way did the explanation for the cause of leprosy change over the course of the Middle Ages?

By the end of the Middle Ages, physicians had come to believe that leprosy was caused by sinful behavior.
By the end of the Middle Ages, physicians had come to believe that leprosy was contagious.
By the end of the Middle Ages, physicians had come to believe that leprosy was caused by lack of bathing.
By the end of the Middle Ages, physicians had come to believe that leprosy was caused by excessive consumption of alcohol.

11. The four humors were blood, black bile, yellow bile, and

Mucus
Urine
Phlegm
Water

12. Organisms, like animals or insects, that carry infectious diseases from one infected animal or person to another are called

Motids
Vectors
Prions
Parasites

13. Which of the following is a CORRECT statement about leprosy?

People infected with leprosy begin to show symptoms within 24 hours.
It kills the majority of people who are infected with it.
It can be difficult to treat because the bacteria that cause leprosy replicate slowly in the human body.
It is highly contagious.

14. Which of the following was NOT a contribution of the Hebrews to later Western notions of disease?

The idea that God could send sickness to punish an entire community because of the actions of a few.
The association between disease and being spiritually "unclean".
The idea that disease was caused by angering God.
The building of hospitals to treat the sick

15. Sources of disease that live in nature and that people come into contact with are called

Pools
Reservoirs
Vectors
Fomites

16. What bacteria causes leprosy?

Mylenisis leprococus
Lepromatus leprosis
Mycobacterium leprae
Leptis magna

17. The Greek physician who popularized the ideas of Hippocrates in the Roman Empire was

Galen
Marcus Aurelius
Eratosthenes
Socrates

18. What were the anargyroi?

Exorcists who specialized in treating mental illness
Roman physicians known for the effectiveness of their herbal remedies
Healing saints
Hebrew physicians

19. Today, leprosy is more commonly known as

Tuberculosis
Erysipelas
Scrofula
Hansen's disease

20. Which of the following parts of the body does the bacteria that causes leprosy attack?

The blood
The nerves
The heart
Brain cells