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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was there a significant outbreak of Zika virus in 2013?
(a) China.
(b) The Netherlands.
(c) French Polynesia.
(d) India.

2. Which public health agency issued a document about warning signs of Influenza strains in 2015?
(a) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
(b) The Global Health Alliance.
(c) The CDC.
(d) The WHO.

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

4. What is the title of the study former British Prime Minister David Cameron commissioned and mentioned to Barack Obama in 2016?
(a) Review on Tropical Viruses.
(b) Review on Antimicrobial Resistance.
(c) Review on Comorbidities in the Developing World.
(d) Review on Pathogens of Pandemic Potential.

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

6. In Chapter 18, what does Osterholm name as the king of infectious diseases?
(a) Coronaviruses.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Bacterial meningitis.
(d) Influenza.

7. 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 kidney.
(b) His liver.
(c) His eye.
(d) His stomach.

8. What happened to government interest in a SARS vaccine when the outbreak was contained by the summer of 2003?
(a) It dwindled.
(b) Interest in a vaccine shifted from government to private sector stakeholders.
(c) Interest in a vaccine shifted from government to philanthropic entities.
(d) It intensified.

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

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

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

12. Which doctor isolated the MERS virus in the 2012 outbreak?
(a) Dr. Carlo Urbani.
(b) Dr. Anne Schuchat.
(c) Dr. Ali Mohammed Zaki.
(d) Dr. James Curran.

13. Which medical center in South Korea was shut down temporarily due to a MERS outbreak there in 2015?
(a) Marriott Medical Center.
(b) Samsung Medical Center.
(c) Kumbwa Medical Center.
(d) Kinowa Medical Center.

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

15. In Chapter 14, what does Osterholm's father do that devastates Osterholm?
(a) Injures Osterholm's mother.
(b) Injures Osterholm's sister.
(c) Injures Osterholm so that he can not play sports any longer.
(d) Destroys some of Osterholm's lab equipment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which illness did Osterholm initially fear his son might have contracted in Chapter 14?

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

3. Why did funerary practices contribute to the spread of Ebola in West Africa in 2014?

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?

5. Why do we need a new flu vaccine formula every year?

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