1. If your doctor prescribes antibiotics, you should keep taking the pills until you feel better.

True
False

2. Because antibiotics don’t affect viruses, they are useless against many common illnesses. Which of these conditions is MOST likely to respond to the drugs?

a. Common cold
b. Strep throat
c. Flu
d. Bronchitis

3. If you use antibacterial soaps for everyday cleaning, you could unwittingly be creating super-germs that are resistant to antibiotics.

True
False

4. If you develop a bacterial infection in a hospital, it will likely be resistant to at least one antibiotic.

True
False

5. Tuberculosis used to be relatively easy to treat with antibiotics, but new strains of drug-resistant germs are greatly complicating treatment. Which of these other conditions have become harder to treat because of antibiotic resistance?

a. Gonorrhea
b. Staph infections
c. Meningitis
d. All of the above

6. Bacteria still haven’t found a defense against vancomycin, one of the most powerful antibiotics around.

True
False

7. If you have some antibiotics in your medicine cabinet, it's all right to share them with a sick friend. True or false?

True
False