 | ||||
Viruses: Meet the Microbes
Practice Test Questions
Virtual Microbiology Classroom of Science Prof Online
| ||||||
VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS
| ||||||
Science Prof Online (SPO) is a FREE science education website. Donations are key in helping us continue to provide this FREE resource.
Please help!
(This donation link uses PayPal on a secure connection.)
Virus Types Sample Test Questions
The following questions, from the Virtual Microbiology Classroom, are designed to help students better understand this topic. All questions are based on material that can be found on the Viruses: Meet the Microbes Lecture Main Page.
1. Which word best describes why Varicella zoster virus is able to reemerge as shingles after initially causing chicken pox?
a. replication
b. latency
c. animal virus
d. exocytosis
e. lysogeny
For questions 2 - 6 below, indicate which feature below corresponds to …
a. live modified virus vaccines b. killed virus vaccines:
2. Multiple doses required
3. Immune system responds faster
4. Safer
5. Virus may change back to being virulent (able to cause disease)
6. More hypersensitivity reactions
7. The genetic material of the HIV virus is…
a. RNAb. DNAc. Not nucleic acidd. Only made of protein8. Human papilloma virus can be normal flora.
a. Trueb. False9. Which infections can caused by prophage viruses?
#1. influenza
#2. HIV
#3. varicella zoster
#4. HPV
#5. measles
a. 1, 2 & 3
b. 1, 2 & 4
c. 2, 3 & 4
d. 2, 4 & 4
e. 3, 4 & 5
10. Who is at risk to become infected with HPV, and develop the related cancers?
a. females only
b. males only
c. both males & females
Page last updated 5/2012
| ||||
These multiple choice and true/false questions are designed to help students practice and test their understanding of this topic.
| ||||
You have free access to a large collection of materials used in a college-level introductory microbiology course. The Virtual Microbiology Classroom provides a wide range of free educational resources including PowerPoint Lectures, Study Guides, Review Questions and Practice Test Questions.
