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

2. Where do the mosquitoes that carried the illness that affected Osterholm's son in Chapter 14 usually live?
(a) Marshes.
(b) Standing puddles.
(c) Deserts.
(d) Tree holes.

3. Who was one of the first physicians to name and discover the SARS virus in 2003?
(a) Dr. Karen Jenkins.
(b) Dr. Lou Chen.
(c) Dr. Hazim Nadim.
(d) Dr. Carlo Urbani.

4. Osterholm notes in Chapter 17 that in his experience, what gets acted upon is related to which of the following?
(a) What scares enough people.
(b) What gets counted.
(c) What gets money.
(d) What gets the right person's attention.

5. What is the name of Osterholm's son who became ill from a mosquito-borne illness?
(a) Eric.
(b) Michael.
(c) Ryan.
(d) Jonathan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What potentially deadly diarrhea does the overuse of antibiotics put patients at risk for?

2. What is a term meaning that a pathogen causes severe and fatal disease?

3. What language does the word chikungunya come from?

4. Which organization was focused on eradicating yellow fever as early as 1915?

5. Which illness did Osterholm initially fear his son might have contracted in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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