Answer These Five Multiple Choice Questions about the Novel Covid_19 Disease and SARS-CoV-2 to Test Your Science Literacy. For Each Question, Only of the Choices is Correct.

1. You can become infected with the Covid-19 disease if you breathe in air that is contaminated with the virus known as ____________. 

(a) Deltainfluenza virus

(b) Influenza A virus

(c) SARS-CoV- 2

(d) H2N2

(Correct answer = c)

2. To reduce your chances of becoming infected with the Covid-19 disease, you should wear a/an________ face mask.

(a) KN95 or an N95 mask

(b) blue or a white surgical mask

(c) cotton or a silk mask

(d) mesh or a spandex mask

(correct answer = a)

3. To greatly reduce your chances of requiring hospitalisation if you were to become infected with the Covid-19 disease, you should get the______ with the approval of your medical doctor.

(a) Covid-19 test

(b) Covid- 19 vaccine

(c) Covid-19 virus

(d) Immune boosting tablets

(correct answer = b)

4. We have more than one variant of SARS-CoV-2 because viruses ____ as they spread:

(a) go extinct 

(b) mutate 

(c) grow in size

(d) become smaller

(Correct answer = b)

5. One of the reasons that rising rates of hospitalisation due to the Covid-19 disease is worrisome is because____________.

(a) It means the common cold cases are also rising

(b) It puts a strain on the healthcare system

(c) It leads to global warming

(d) It mutates to become the ebola virus

(Correct answer =  b)