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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 19 - 21).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was there a measles outbreak in Minnesota?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1991.
(d) 2000.

2. What was the Supreme Court Ruling in the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts case?
(a) The benefit of the smallpox vaccine to public health outweighed an individual's right to refuse the vaccine.
(b) All people who wanted to travel abroad had to have the smallpox vaccine first.
(c) All children who wanted to attend public school had to have the smallpox vaccine.
(d) Only children with religious exemptions could be allowed not to have the smallpox vaccine.

3. What illness did Osterholm's son turn out to have in Chapter 14?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Ebola.
(c) Dengue fever.
(d) La Crosse encephalitis.

4. Who identified the influenza virus in 1933?
(a) Dr. James Curran.
(b) Dr. John Snow.
(c) Dr. Edward Jenner.
(d) Dr. Richard E. Shope.

5. Where do the mosquitoes that carried the illness that affected Osterholm's son in Chapter 14 usually live?
(a) Tree holes.
(b) Marshes.
(c) Standing puddles.
(d) Deserts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way in which a person's immune system can overreact to a pathogen?

2. Who convened a panel of experts in 1965 to discuss whether new antibiotics were needed?

3. In Chapter 5, where does Osterholm point out there are the most microbes in the human body?

4. What is the serious condition that the Zika virus sometimes causes in babies?

5. Which 2004 report summarized the scientific community's concerns about bioterrorism?

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