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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did yellow fever get its name?
(a) It can damage the liver and cause jaundice.
(b) It originated near a river whose polluted water was yellow in color.
(c) The mosquitoes who carry it eat yellow tree leaves.
(d) The mosquitoes who carry it have yellow striping on their wings.

2. In the 1918 flu epidemic, which population suffered a disproportionately high number of deaths?
(a) Women.
(b) Young people.
(c) Spanish people.
(d) Old people.

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

4. 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) The off-label uses of antibiotics on chicken farms.
(b) Antibiotic cocktails that combine the strong drug colistin with several others.
(c) The under-dosing of antibiotics for sick chickens.
(d) The super-dosing of the strongest antibiotics we have.

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

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

7. Why did funerary practices contribute to the spread of Ebola in West Africa in 2014?
(a) They involved extensive physical contact with dead bodies.
(b) Bodies were buried close to water supplies of villages.
(c) The involved airborne incense that had the potential to infect others.
(d) They involved infected scarves.

8. Which organization was focused on eradicating yellow fever as early as 1915?
(a) The Rockefeller Foundation.
(b) The Aster Fund.
(c) The Joymal Foundation.
(d) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

9. Which organ did an American health care worker harbor Ebola virus in for quite a while after he had been cured of the disease?
(a) His eye.
(b) His stomach.
(c) His kidney.
(d) His liver.

10. By the end of July in 2015, what was the Korean MERS death toll?
(a) 36 of 186 confirmed cases.
(b) 200 of 387 confirmed cases.
(c) 45 of 98 confirmed cases.
(d) 50 of 2000 confirmed cases.

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

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

13. Where do the mosquitoes that carried the illness that affected Osterholm's son in Chapter 14 usually live?
(a) Tree holes.
(b) Marshes.
(c) Standing puddles.
(d) Deserts.

14. 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 airborne.
(b) That it could mutate to become more lethal to older people.
(c) That it could mutate to become more lethal to children.
(d) That it could mutate to become more lethal to middle-aged people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, where did Osterholm and his family build a house in 1997?

2. Where was Zika virus first detected?

3. Who is the National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, named for?

4. In which North American city did a SARS outbreak occur in 2003?

5. What are bacteriophages?

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