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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which book did Rachel Carson write that raised questions about the safety of commonly used chemicals to kill mosquitoes?
(a) Silent Spring.
(b) Killing the Land.
(c) Endless Night.
(d) Dark Waters.

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

3. When was Dengue first identified?
(a) During the early 1900s in London.
(b) During the late 1800s in India.
(c) During the early 1700s in Africa.
(d) During the Jin dynasty in China.

4. Why do we need a new flu vaccine formula every year?
(a) Flu vaccine expires quickly.
(b) The scientists who formulate the new vaccine every year would be out of a job if they only had to do one vaccine every ten years.
(c) The pharmaceutical companies can not store enough vaccine for several years at a time.
(d) Flu viruses transmitted between humans are unstable, and they mutate easily.

5. 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 pangolin in a village near the Zika River in 1956.
(d) In a rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest in Uganda in 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which doctor isolated the MERS virus in the 2012 outbreak?

2. Who led President Obama's Ebola response effort?

3. What is the title of the study former British Prime Minister David Cameron commissioned and mentioned to Barack Obama in 2016?

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

5. How many West African children were orphaned by the Ebola outbreak in 2014?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 16, who was one of the first doctors to discover the power of antibiotics and how did he make this discovery?

2. What was the likely origin of the MERS outbreak that began in 2012?

3. What did Dr. Anne Schuchat at the CDC say about the tools available to fight a disease like SARS?

4. How does Osterholm characterize most Americans' attitude towards mosquitoes?

5. In Chapter 17, what is one remedy for antibiotic-resistant infections that Osterholm says will be more difficult, but not impossible, to develop?

6. In Chapter 14, what does Osterholm remember Dr. Hausler for, especially during a difficult personal episode for Osterholm?

7. In 2015, where did a severe new strain of flu appear in the United States?

8. In Chapter 12, what is one of the theories about how the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa began?

9. What does Osterholm write that Zika is the first example of in his career in public health?

10. In Chapter 18, what does John Barry, author of The Great Influenza, say is the first thing to understand about influenza?

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