Self Assessment Exercises

Answer: b. HBV
1. Which of the following is the cause of smallpox?:
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8. Which of the following is a type of herpes virus?:
b. varicella virus
a. Epstein–Barr virus
c. variola virus
b. measles virus
d. none of the preceding choices
c. mumps virus
d. rabies virus
Answer: c. variola virus
Answer: a. Epstein–Barr virus
2. Which the following are considered to be
oncogenic?:
9. Which of the following viral diseases has been
a. Epstein–Barr virus and human papillomaviruses
associated with microcephaly in infants born to
b. HIV and Ebola virus
mothers who were infected during pregnancy?:
c. rubella and rubeola viruses
a. chikungunya virus
d. variola and varicella viruses
b. hantavirus
c. Zika virus
Answer: a. Epstein–Barr virus and human
d. Epstein–Barr virus
papillomaviruses
Answer: c. Zika virus
3. Laboratory diagnosis of HIV infection is usually
made by::
10. The disease known as Middle East respiratory
a. electron microscopy
syndrome is caused by a type of::
b. growth of HIV in cell culture
a. coronavirus
c. growth of HIV in embryonated chicken eggs
b. herpes virus
d. immunodiagnostic procedures for the detection
c. papillomavirus
of antigen and antibodies
d. picornavirus
Answer: d. immunodiagnostic procedures for
Answer: a. coronavirus
the detection
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4. Which of the following is also known as
infectious hepatitis?:
1. What virus causes German Measles?
a. HAV
a) Rubeola virus
b. HBV
b) Rubella virus
c. HCV
c) Varicella-zoster virus
d. HDV
d) Measles virus
Answer: b) Rubella virus
Answer: a. HAV
2. Shingles is caused by reactivation of which
5. Mosquitoes serve as vectors in all of the
virus?
following viral diseases except::
a) HSV-1
a. dengue fever
b) Rubella
b. hepatitis
c) Varicella-zoster virus
c. West Nile virus disease
d) HPV
d. yellow fever
Answer: c) Varicella-zoster virus
Answer: b. hepatitis
3. What precaution is recommended for
hospitalized Chickenpox patients?
6. Which of the following viruses is/are not
a) Droplet
transmitted sexually?:
b) Standard
a. hantavirus
c) Airborne and Contact
b. HSVs
d) Contact only
c. HIV
Answer: c) Airborne and Contact
d. papillomaviruses
4. What is the major complication of giving aspirin
Answer: a. hantavirus
to children with Chickenpox?
a) Meningitis
7. Which of the following is a DNA virus?:
b) Reye's syndrome
a. HAV
c) Toxic shock
b. HBV
d) Guillain-Barré syndrome
c. HCV
Answer: b) Reye's syndrome
d. HDV
5. What family does the Rubella virus belong to? b) Infants
a) Herpesviridae c) Teenagers
b) Togaviridae d) Pregnant women
c) Picornaviridae Answer: b) Infants
d) Flaviviridae
Answer: b) Togaviridae 14. What is a key difference between cold and flu?
a) Colds cause diarrhea
6. HFMD is most commonly caused by which virus? b) Flu causes high fever and body aches
a) Coxsackie A16 c) Cold is more severe
b) Varicella d) Flu is caused by rhinoviruses
c) Measles Answer: b) Flu causes high fever and body
d) Rubella aches
Answer: a) Coxsackie A16
15. What precaution is required for hospitalized
7. Warts are caused by which group of viruses? patients with influenza?
a) Herpesviruses a) Airborne
b) Adenoviruses b) Droplet
c) Papillomaviruses c) Contact
d) Togaviruses d) None
Answer: c) Papillomaviruses Answer: b) Droplet

8. Which HPV genotypes are most associated with 16. What virus causes MERS?
cervical cancer? a) Influenza B
a) 1 and 6 b) MERS-CoV
b) 11 and 13 c) SARS-CoV-1
c) 16 and 18 d) RSV
d) 31 and 33 Answer: b) MERS-CoV
Answer: c) 16 and 18
17. Avian influenza (bird flu) is primarily transmitted
9. Which childhood illness is marked by a “slapped by:
cheek” appearance? a) Human-to-human
a) Rubella b) Contact with infected birds
b) HFMD c) Rodents
c) Measles d) Bats
d) Chickenpox Answer: b) Contact with infected birds
Answer: c) Measles
18. What virus caused a pandemic in 1918–1919?
10. Which viral disease is now eradicated from the a) SARS-CoV
general population? b) H1N1 Swine Flu
a) Measles c) Spanish Flu (H1N1)
b) Smallpox d) MERS-CoV
c) Polio Answer: c) Spanish Flu (H1N1)
d) Rubella
Answer: b) Smallpox 19. Which animal is the suspected reservoir for
MERS-CoV?
11. Which virus is the major cause of common cold a) Camels
in adults? b) Rodents
a) Rhinovirus c) Bats
b) Influenza d) Pigs
c) Adenovirus Answer: a) Camels
d) RSV
Answer: a) Rhinovirus 20. What causes Acute Febrile Viral Respiratory
Disease in infants?
12. What virus family does the Influenza virus a) Measles
belong to? b) Norovirus
a) Flaviviridae c) RSV
b) Orthomyxoviridae d) Rotavirus
c) Paramyxoviridae Answer: c) RSV
d) Picornaviridae
Answer: b) Orthomyxoviridae 21. Most common cause of foodborne viral
outbreaks in the US?
13. RSV is a major pathogen in which population? a) Rotavirus
a) Elderly b) Astrovirus
c) Norovirus
d) Adenovirus 30. What viral hepatitis can be prevented using
Answer: c) Norovirus immune globulin post-exposure?
a) Hepatitis B
22. Which virus is the major cause of severe b) Hepatitis E
diarrhea in infants? c) Hepatitis C
a) Norovirus d) Hepatitis D
b) Rotavirus Answer: a) Hepatitis B
c) Calicivirus
d) Enterovirus 31. What virus causes Poliomyelitis?
Answer: b) Rotavirus a) Rubeola
b) Rubella
23. What is the mode of transmission for c) Poliovirus
Norovirus? d) Norovirus
a) Airborne Answer: c) Poliovirus
b) Vector-borne
c) Fecal-oral 32. What is the mode of transmission of Poliovirus?
d) Sexual contact a) Fecal-oral
Answer: c) Fecal-oral b) Droplet
c) Vector-borne
24. Which of the following has a vaccine available? d) Skin contact
a) Norovirus Answer: a) Fecal-oral
b) Rotavirus
c) Astrovirus 33. Rabies virus belongs to which family?
d) Calicivirus a) Paramyxoviridae
Answer: b) Rotavirus b) Togaviridae
c) Rhabdoviridae
25. Which viral hepatitis is transmitted via the fecal- d) Poxviridae
oral route? Answer: c) Rhabdoviridae
a) Hepatitis A
b) Hepatitis B 34. What diagnostic feature is specific to rabies?
c) Hepatitis C a) Koplik spots
d) Hepatitis D b) Skin rash
Answer: a) Hepatitis A c) Negri bodies
d) Cytomegalic cells
26. Which hepatitis virus is associated with high Answer: c) Negri bodies
risk to healthcare workers?
a) HAV 35. What is the vector for West Nile virus?
b) HBV a) Ticks
c) HEV b) Fleas
d) HDV c) Culex mosquitoes
Answer: b) HBV d) Sandflies
Answer: c) Culex mosquitoes
27. Which hepatitis virus lacks a vaccine?
a) HCV 36. Which of these is a rodent-borne viral infection
b) HAV causing meningitis?
c) HBV a) Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
d) All of the above b) Arboviral encephalitis
Answer: a) HCV c) Polio
d) Measles
28. What virus causes “stomach flu”? Answer: a) Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
a) Influenza virus
b) Enterovirus 37. What is the common cause of viral meningitis in
c) Norovirus the US?
d) Measles virus a) HSV
Answer: c) Norovirus b) Enteroviruses
c) Rabies
29. How is Hepatitis B primarily spread? d) Measles
a) Fecal-oral Answer: b) Enteroviruses
b) Blood and body fluids
c) Vector-borne 38. What viral CNS disease has mosquito vectors
d) Airborne and causes encephalitis?
Answer: b) Blood and body fluids a) Rabies
b) Measles Answer: b) HPV
c) Arboviral encephalitis
d) Polio 47. Which virus is oncogenic and associated with
Answer: c) Arboviral encephalitis Burkitt lymphoma?
a) HPV
39. Zika virus is associated with what birth defect? b) EBV
a) Microcephaly c) HIV
b) Anencephaly d) HTLV
c) Spina bifida Answer: b) EBV
d) Hydrocephalus
Answer: a) Microcephaly 48. What virus is most associated with "swimming
pool conjunctivitis"?
40. Which virus causes severe encephalitis and is a) HSV
spread by Ixodes ticks? b) Adenovirus
a) Dengue virus c) RSV
b) Yellow fever virus d) HPV
c) Powassan virus Answer: b) Adenovirus
d) West Nile virus
Answer: c) Powassan virus 49. Which virus is commonly found in middle ear
infections in children?
41. What virus causes Kaposi Sarcoma in AIDS a) RSV
patients? b) Norovirus
a) Human herpesvirus 8 c) HPV
b) HPV d) CMV
c) EBV Answer: a) RSV
d) HSV
Answer: a) Human herpesvirus 8 50. What is the presence of virus in the blood
called?
42. What virus causes “mono” or the kissing a) Viremeia
disease? b) Toxemia
a) HSV c) Viremia
b) CMV d) Septicemia
c) EBV Answer: c) Viremia
d) HIV
Answer: c) EBV 51. What virus causes Chickenpox and Shingles?
a) Measles virus
43. What type of virus is HIV? b) Rubella virus
a) DNA virus c) Varicella-zoster virus
b) RNA retrovirus d) Human papillomavirus
c) DNA retrovirus
d) Bacteriophage Answer: c) Varicella-zoster virus
Answer: b) RNA retrovirus
52. What is the main mode of transmission of the
44. How is HIV most commonly diagnosed? Rubella virus?
a) PCR a) Fecal-oral transmission
b) Western blot b) Droplet spread and direct contact with
c) ELISA screening + Western blot respiratory secretions
d) Rapid swab c) Vector-borne (mosquito)
Answer: c) ELISA screening + Western blot d) Skin-to-skin contact

45. Which viral STD presents with painful vesicles Answer: b) Droplet spread and direct contact
and ulcers? with respiratory secretions
a) HPV
b) Genital herpes 53. What is the characteristic early sign of Measles
c) Syphilis (Rubeola)?
d) Chlamydia a) Red eyes
Answer: b) Genital herpes b) Koplik spots in the mouth
c) Joint pain
46. What virus is the major cause of genital warts? d) Jaundice
a) HSV-1
b) HPV Answer: b) Koplik spots in the mouth
c) EBV
d) CMV
54. Which of the following viruses is a potential
biological warfare agent?
a) Epstein–Barr virus
b) Influenza virus
c) Variola virus (Smallpox)
d) Rhinovirus

Answer: c) Variola virus (Smallpox)

55. Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease is most

commonly caused by which virus?
a) Rotavirus
b) Coxsackie A16 virus
c) Rubella virus
d) Norovirus

Answer: b) Coxsackie A16 virus

56. Which virus is the most common cause of the

common cold in adults?
a) Influenza virus
b) Rhinovirus
c) Adenovirus
d) Coronavirus

Answer: b) Rhinovirus

57. Which virus is associated with the highest

fatality rate in Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers?
a) Dengue virus
b) Yellow fever virus
c) Ebola virus
d) Hantavirus

Answer: c) Ebola virus

58. What type of virus causes genital warts and is

associated with cervical cancer?
a) HIV
b) Herpes simplex virus
c) Human papillomavirus (HPV)
d) Epstein–Barr virus

Answer: c) Human papillomavirus (HPV)

59. What is the main reservoir of the Hantavirus

that causes Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
(HPS)?
a) Birds
b) Humans
c) Rodents
d) Mosquitoes

Answer: c) Rodents

60. Which of the following viruses causes

anogenital herpes infections most commonly?
a) HIV
b) HPV
c) HSV-2
d) HSV-1

Answer: c) HSV-2