Quiz 4 Tophat Questions

Question 1

This malarial organism is found in Macaque monkeys and has a 1 day cycle and severe clinical signs in people. What is it?

a. P. ovale
b. P. knowlesi
c. P. falciparum
d. P. vivax

Answer 1

b. P. knowlesi

Question 2

What is the genus of the mosquito that transmits malaria?

a. Anopheles
b. Aedes
c. Culicoides
d. Culex

Answer 2

a. Anopheles

Question 3

What type of mosquito feeding pattern is most likely to result in human infection for malaria?

a. Mosquito prefers animals and feeds primarily outdoors
b. Mosquito prefers humans and feeds primarily outdoors
c. Mosquito prefers humans and feeds primarily indoors
d. Mosquito prefers human and animals the same and feeds primarily outdoors

Answer 3

c. Mosquito prefers humans and feeds primarily indoors

Question 4

Which plasmodium species can lie dormant in the liver an cause illness 2-4 years later? Choose all that apply.

a. ovale
b. vivax
c. malariae
d. falciparum

Answer 4

a. and b.

Question 5

Which group accounts for the most malaria-related deaths?

a. Elderly
b. Middle-age adults
c. Pregnant women
d. children

Answer 5

d. children

Question 6

Which cycle of Yellow Fever transmission results in the most person-to-person transmission with large outbreaks?

a. sylvatic
b. intermediate
c. urban

Answer 6

c. urban

Question 7

Which mosquito is associated with the urban cycle of Yellow Fever?

a. Aedes
b. Haemongogus
c. Sabethes

Answer 7

a. Aedes

Question 8

True or False: Most people recover from the first phase/stage of infection with Yellow Fever

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What is the temperature limit to which global climate change efforts are trying to keep the world from reaching?

a. 1 degree C
b. 1.5 degrees C
c. 2 degrees C
d. 2.5 degrees C

Answer 9

c. 2 degrees C

Question 10

Which greenhouse gas has the greatest potential for warming?

Answer 10

d. sullfur hexafluoride (SF6)

Question 11

True or False: There has never been a time in the last 800,000 years in which CO2 has reached the level that we have today.

Answer 11

true

Question 12

An example of a direct impact of climate change is:

a. Undernutrition
b. Malaria
c. Mental health stress
d. Heat stress

Answer 12

d. Heat stress

Question 13

Regarding health and climate change, the best thing that can be done now to safeguard health in the face of climate change is to:

a. Ensure there are robust public health and health care interventions
b. Ensure everyone has access to clean water
c. Ensure everyone has access to proper sanitation
d. Alleviate poverty

Answer 13

a. Ensure there are robust public health and health care interventions