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

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

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

4. In Chapter 15, what analogy does Osterholm use for Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases?
(a) A marathon.
(b) An uphill battle.
(c) Trench warfare.
(d) A fight against crime.

5. What potentially deadly diarrhea does the overuse of antibiotics put patients at risk for?
(a) Clostridium difficile.
(b) Colitis.
(c) Marburg diarrhea.
(d) Crohn's Disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Osterholm's son who became ill from a mosquito-borne illness?

2. How long had researchers known about the Zika virus before the 2016 outbreak?

3. Where was Zika virus first detected?

4. Which public health organization or government agency is in charge of mosquito control today, according to Osterholm?

5. Which animal does Osterholm think helped spread MERS to humans?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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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