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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. Which writer does Osterholm begin Chapter 12 with a quote from?
(a) Ted Chiang.
(b) William Gibson.
(c) Mary Shelly.
(d) Roy Strong.

2. How did yellow fever get its name?
(a) The mosquitoes who carry it eat yellow tree leaves.
(b) The mosquitoes who carry it have yellow striping on their wings.
(c) It can damage the liver and cause jaundice.
(d) It originated near a river whose polluted water was yellow in color.

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

4. Which doctor isolated the MERS virus in the 2012 outbreak?
(a) Dr. Ali Mohammed Zaki.
(b) Dr. Carlo Urbani.
(c) Dr. Anne Schuchat.
(d) Dr. James Curran.

5. What happened to government interest in a SARS vaccine when the outbreak was contained by the summer of 2003?
(a) It dwindled.
(b) Interest in a vaccine shifted from government to private sector stakeholders.
(c) Interest in a vaccine shifted from government to philanthropic entities.
(d) It intensified.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of antibiotic use on some large chicken farms in India is of particular concern for scientists studying the rise of drug-resistant microbes?

2. What was the average life-expectancy in the United States in 2009?

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

4. Who wrote the book The Great Influenza?

5. What publication did Osterholm almost pull an op-ed he wrote about Zika from in 2016?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Dr. Anne Schuchat at the CDC say about the tools available to fight a disease like SARS?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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