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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What kind of deadly flu strain caused an outbreak on Midwest poultry farms in the U.S. in 2015?
(a) H1N1.
(b) H5N2.
(c) H2N3.
(d) H3N1.

4. 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) It intensified.
(d) Interest in a vaccine shifted from government to philanthropic entities.

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

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

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

8. What publication did Osterholm almost pull an op-ed he wrote about Zika from in 2016?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The Los Angeles Times.
(c) The Guardian.
(d) The New York Times.

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

10. Which advisor of Osterholm's does Osterholm remember as being particularly kind and empathetic towards him in Chapter 14?
(a) Dr. Anthony Fauci.
(b) Dr. James Curran.
(c) Dr. William Hausler.
(d) Dr. Samuel Clemens.

11. 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) DDT.
(d) MMR.

12. 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.

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

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

15. How long had researchers known about the Zika virus before the 2016 outbreak?
(a) About 200 years.
(b) About 70 years.
(c) About 10 years.
(d) About 20 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a term meaning that a pathogen causes severe and fatal disease?

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

3. Osterholm notes in Chapter 17 that in his experience, what gets acted upon is related to which of the following?

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

5. Where did the 2012 outbreak of MERS seem to originate?

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