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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 7 - 11).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which creature is most responsible for spreading malaria?
(a) Mosquitoes.
(b) Rats.
(c) Bats.
(d) Cats.

3. What are the unchanging features of a virus called?
(a) Static.
(b) Stable.
(c) Stalked.
(d) Conserved.

4. What is the serious condition that the Zika virus sometimes causes in babies?
(a) Microcephaly.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Paralysis.

5. What is one of the main problems with the flu vaccine, according to Osterholm?
(a) It makes one's arm very sore.
(b) It can only be administered via a nasal spray.
(c) It is too expensive.
(d) It changes every year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the One Health movement strive to do?

2. Which part of Africa did the Ebola outbreak occur in in 2014?

3. What is one aspect Osterholm identifies as favorable for virus transmission in his "current world conditions" category in Chapter 8?

4. What turned out to be causing the diarrheal illness in Minnesota that Osterholm investigated in 1984?

5. Where do about 90% of malaria deaths occur in the world?

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