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

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

3. Who wrote the book The Great Influenza?
(a) Edward Jenner.
(b) John Snow.
(c) James Curran.
(d) John Barry.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Dengue first identified?

3. What word does Osterholm deliberately use when discussing the use of new antibiotics throughout history?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What kind of virus is Ebola and why was it given this specific name?

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

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

10. 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?

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