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

2. 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 airborne.
(d) That it could mutate to become more lethal to older people.

3. In Chapter 14, where did Osterholm and his family build a house in 1997?
(a) On Lake Minnetonka.
(b) On Lake Cataqua.
(c) On Lake Woebegone.
(d) On Lake Lackawaxen.

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

5. In which North American city did a SARS outbreak occur in 2003?
(a) Montreal.
(b) Toronto.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the mosquitoes that carried the illness that affected Osterholm's son in Chapter 14 usually live?

2. What are bacteriophages?

3. Who is one of the leading independent journalists on public health, according to Osterholm in Chapter 16?

4. What are the leading causes of death today in America, according to Osterholm?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Osterholm believe the public is so fearful of diseases like Ebola?

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

3. Why did so many young, healthy people die in the 1918 flu epidemic?

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

5. What is one of Osterholm's fears about how a virus like Ebola could possibly mutate to become worse?

6. Which bacteria does Osterholm cite as killing more people in America each year than the AIDS virus, and where do most of them pick up the infection?

7. In Chapter 12, why does Osterholm think President Obama's choice of Ron Klain to head his Ebola task force in 2014 was inspired?

8. Why does Osterholm think many doctors prescribe antibiotics even when they think they will do the patient no good?

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

10. Why does Osterholm argue that cancer and heart disease kill so many more people today than they did a century ago?

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