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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 counted.
(c) What scares enough people.
(d) What gets money.

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

3. Which writer does Osterholm begin Chapter 12 with a quote from?
(a) Ted Chiang.
(b) Mary Shelly.
(c) William Gibson.
(d) Roy Strong.

4. What language does the word chikungunya come from?
(a) Indian.
(b) Malaysian.
(c) Makonde.
(d) Swahili.

5. Where did the 2012 outbreak of MERS seem to originate?
(a) Israel.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

6. What drug did some of the birth defects caused by the Zika virus remind some health care professionals of that had also caused birth defects?
(a) Ambiel.
(b) Zafran.
(c) Celebrit.
(d) Thalidomide.

7. Who convened a panel of experts in 1965 to discuss whether new antibiotics were needed?
(a) Dr. Max Findland.
(b) Dr. James Curran.
(c) Dr. Marion Gilkler.
(d) Dr. Mark Olster.

8. What word does Osterholm deliberately use when discussing the use of new antibiotics throughout history?
(a) Serendipity.
(b) Inventions.
(c) Discoveries.
(d) Stumbles.

9. Who is one of the leading independent journalists on public health, according to Osterholm in Chapter 16?
(a) Colleen O'Mahr.
(b) Marshall Winchell.
(c) Lola Navado.
(d) Maryn McKenna.

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

11. What is the problem with the vaccine for yellow fever?
(a) We do not have enough of it for those who would need it in a large-scale outbreak.
(b) It causes serious side effects.
(c) It is far too expensive to be used widely.
(d) It can not be administered to people under the age of 25.

12. What type of antibiotic use on some large chicken farms in India is of particular concern for scientists studying the rise of drug-resistant microbes?
(a) Antibiotic cocktails that combine the strong drug colistin with several others.
(b) The off-label uses of antibiotics on chicken farms.
(c) The under-dosing of antibiotics for sick chickens.
(d) The super-dosing of the strongest antibiotics we have.

13. What is a term meaning that a pathogen causes severe and fatal disease?
(a) Stark mark.
(b) High-pathogenicity.
(c) Death-potential.
(d) Black-out potential.

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) ERA.
(b) FBG.
(c) MMR.
(d) DDT.

15. Which Florida Senator expressed alarm over mosquito-borne infections in the aftermath of the Zika outbreak?
(a) Rick Scott.
(b) Rick Sanchez.
(c) Jeb Bush.
(d) Marco Rubio.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Zika virus first detected?

2. In the 1918 flu epidemic, which population suffered a disproportionately high number of deaths?

3. Which cave remained untouched by humans or animals for almost four million years, until its discovery in 1986?

4. Which book did Rachel Carson write that raised questions about the safety of commonly used chemicals to kill mosquitoes?

5. Which organ did an American health care worker harbor Ebola virus in for quite a while after he had been cured of the disease?

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