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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How many West African children were orphaned by the Ebola outbreak in 2014?
(a) About 30,000.
(b) About 10,000.
(c) About 100,000.
(d) About 50,000.

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

8. Which public health organization or government agency is in charge of mosquito control today, according to Osterholm?
(a) The Department of Agriculture.
(b) The Department of Homeland Security.
(c) Not one.
(d) Health and Human Services.

9. Where was Zika virus first detected?
(a) In a civet in the Chinese province of Zika in 1956.
(b) In a toddler in a village near the Zika River in 1960.
(c) In a rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest in Uganda in 1947.
(d) In a pangolin in a village near the Zika River in 1956.

10. Who is the National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, named for?
(a) Dr. Walter Reed.
(b) Dr. Gerald Heil.
(c) Dr. E.G. Cummings.
(d) Dr. Arnold Ashe.

11. Which illness did Osterholm initially fear his son might have contracted in Chapter 14?
(a) Marburg.
(b) Bacterial meningitis.
(c) SARS.
(d) Influenza.

12. Which child of Osterholm's came across her sibling's unnamed case in a medical presentation while in medical school?
(a) Erin.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Jennifer.
(d) Laura.

13. What are bacteriophages?
(a) Bacteria that have been extinct for a long time.
(b) Viruses that can infect and kill certain bacteria.
(c) Bateria that eat only iron.
(d) Bacteria that have been altered in labs to target viruses.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote the book The Great Influenza?

3. Who was one of the first physicians to name and discover the SARS virus in 2003?

4. What potentially deadly diarrhea does the overuse of antibiotics put patients at risk for?

5. Which advisor of Osterholm's does Osterholm remember as being particularly kind and empathetic towards him in Chapter 14?

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