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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was one of the first physicians to name and discover the SARS virus in 2003?
(a) Dr. Karen Jenkins.
(b) Dr. Carlo Urbani.
(c) Dr. Hazim Nadim.
(d) Dr. Lou Chen.

2. What kind of virus are both the MERS and SARS viruses?
(a) Coronaviruses.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Hemorrhagic fevers.
(d) Prions.

3. What possibility about Ebola was Osterholm criticized for bringing up in a 2014 op-ed in the New York Times?
(a) That it could mutate to become more lethal to children.
(b) That it could mutate to become airborne.
(c) That it could mutate to become more lethal to older people.
(d) That it could mutate to become more lethal to middle-aged people.

4. Who led President Obama's Ebola response effort?
(a) Joe Biden.
(b) Ron Klain.
(c) Tom Daschle.
(d) Tommy Thompson.

5. What was the average life-expectancy in the United States in 2009?
(a) 80 years.
(b) 90 years.
(c) 85 years.
(d) 78 years.

6. What kind of creatures are mosquitos?
(a) Amphibians.
(b) Arachnids.
(c) Arthropods.
(d) Mammals.

7. Which cave remained untouched by humans or animals for almost four million years, until its discovery in 1986?
(a) Ronalind Cave.
(b) Lechugilla Cave.
(c) Marcanuil Cave.
(d) Talahatche Cave.

8. What are the independent pieces of DNA that bacteria can sometimes share with each other?
(a) Quarks.
(b) Brokers.
(c) Cones.
(d) Plasmids.

9. Which hotel in Hong Kong became a central place for the spread of SARS in 2003?
(a) The Mariott Intercontinental.
(b) The Metropole Hotel.
(c) The Crown Plaza Hotel.
(d) The Hong Kong Hilton.

10. Which doctor is widely credited with discovering the first antibiotics?
(a) Dr. James Curran.
(b) Dr. John Snow.
(c) Dr. Alexander Fleming.
(d) Dr. Edward Jenner.

11. What illness did Osterholm's son turn out to have in Chapter 14?
(a) Dengue fever.
(b) La Crosse encephalitis.
(c) Ebola.
(d) Cholera.

12. In Chapter 14, where did Osterholm and his family build a house in 1997?
(a) On Lake Lackawaxen.
(b) On Lake Woebegone.
(c) On Lake Minnetonka.
(d) On Lake Cataqua.

13. What did Dr. Anne Schuchat say about the tools we had to fight SARS in 2003?
(a) They are all very expensive.
(b) They were the same ones we have had for hundreds of years.
(c) They are dependent on people adhering to social distancing guidelines.
(d) They are entirely dependent on a successful vaccine.

14. What chemical that used to be commonly used to kill mosquitoes became a public health and environmental concern as the years went on?
(a) FBG.
(b) MMR.
(c) ERA.
(d) DDT.

15. Osterholm notes in Chapter 17 that in his experience, what gets acted upon is related to which of the following?
(a) What gets the right person's attention.
(b) What gets money.
(c) What gets counted.
(d) What scares enough people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which animal does Osterholm think helped spread MERS to humans?

2. In Chapter 14, what does Osterholm's father do that devastates Osterholm?

3. What publication did Osterholm almost pull an op-ed he wrote about Zika from in 2016?

4. What happened to government interest in a SARS vaccine when the outbreak was contained by the summer of 2003?

5. What kind of deadly flu strain caused an outbreak on Midwest poultry farms in the U.S. in 2015?

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