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

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

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

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

5. What illness were doctors in cities along the Brazilian coast seeing a dramatic increase in in 2015?
(a) Guillain-Barre.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Marburg.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kind of virus are both the MERS and SARS viruses?

4. In the 1918 flu epidemic, which population suffered a disproportionately high number of deaths?

5. What kind of deadly flu strain caused an outbreak on Midwest poultry farms in the U.S. in 2015?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Osterholm claim a personal stake in studying mosquito-borne illnesses?

8. What was the most serious complication of the Zika virus that merged in the Americas in 2015?

9. What are the two types of dengue disease Osterholm describes in Chapter 14?

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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