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

2. What language does the word chikungunya come from?
(a) Indian.
(b) Swahili.
(c) Malaysian.
(d) Makonde.

3. In the 1918 flu epidemic, which population suffered a disproportionately high number of deaths?
(a) Young people.
(b) Old people.
(c) Spanish people.
(d) Women.

4. How long had researchers known about the Zika virus before the 2016 outbreak?
(a) About 20 years.
(b) About 70 years.
(c) About 10 years.
(d) About 200 years.

5. Which public health agency issued a document about warning signs of Influenza strains in 2015?
(a) The Global Health Alliance.
(b) The WHO.
(c) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
(d) The CDC.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What illness did Osterholm's son turn out to have in Chapter 14?

3. What does Osterholm say is currently the most important vector-borne virus disease that affects humans?

4. Which two cities were initially on the WHO's travel alert because of SARS in 2003?

5. Who is the National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, named for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. In Chapter 13, what was one of the missteps Osterholm criticizes China for in the early days of the SARS outbreak?

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

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