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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. Why did funerary practices contribute to the spread of Ebola in West Africa in 2014?
(a) Bodies were buried close to water supplies of villages.
(b) They involved extensive physical contact with dead bodies.
(c) The involved airborne incense that had the potential to infect others.
(d) They involved infected scarves.

2. What is a term meaning that a pathogen causes severe and fatal disease?
(a) Stark mark.
(b) Black-out potential.
(c) High-pathogenicity.
(d) Death-potential.

3. What are the leading causes of death today in America, according to Osterholm?
(a) Heart disease and cancer.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Car accidents.
(d) Bacterial infections.

4. In Chapter 17, which doctor does Osterholm identify as one of the first to demonstrate the importance of hand-washing?
(a) Dr. Marco Iqubal.
(b) Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis.
(c) Dr. Richard Siemmler.
(d) Dr. Bronwyn Mawbry.

5. Which Florida Senator expressed alarm over mosquito-borne infections in the aftermath of the Zika outbreak?
(a) Rick Scott.
(b) Jeb Bush.
(c) Rick Sanchez.
(d) Marco Rubio.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What illness were doctors in cities along the Brazilian coast seeing a dramatic increase in in 2015?

3. Which writer does Osterholm begin Chapter 12 with a quote from?

4. What kind of virus are both the MERS and SARS viruses?

5. Where does Dr. Sean Wasserman worry there might be another yellow fever outbreak in the near future?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. What was the likely origin of the MERS outbreak that began in 2012?

8. In Chapter 18, what does John Barry, author of The Great Influenza, say is the first thing to understand about influenza?

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

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

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