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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does the word chikungunya come from?

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

3. When was Dengue first identified?

4. In the 1918 flu epidemic, which population suffered a disproportionately high number of deaths?

5. What are the independent pieces of DNA that bacteria can sometimes share with each other?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 14, what were some of the most important measures doctors and public health officials around the world enacted to help get the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s under control? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What were some of the significant mistakes public health officials made in the early days of the AIDS crisis, according to Osterholm? What are some of the decisions and ideas public health officials put into action in the early days of the AIDS crisis that Osterholm praises? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the reasons Osterholm puts forward to explain why new vaccine production takes so long, from start to finish? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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