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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the 1918 flu epidemic commonly known as?
(a) The Italian Flu.
(b) The British Flu.
(c) The War Flu.
(d) The Spanish Flu.

2. What turned out to be causing the diarrheal illness in Minnesota that Osterholm investigated in 1984?
(a) Pathogens on canteloupes.
(b) Pathogens on spinach.
(c) Bacteria from a peanut-processing plant.
(d) Bacteria in raw milk.

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

4. Which part of Africa did the Ebola outbreak occur in in 2014?
(a) North.
(b) South.
(c) East.
(d) West.

5. What is one of the two metaphors Osterholm uses for fighting viruses throughout the book?
(a) Famine.
(b) Envy.
(c) War.
(d) Pestilence.

6. Which Greek myth does Osterholm invoke in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) The Golden Fleece.
(b) Achilles's Heel.
(c) The Minotaur and the Labyrinth.
(d) Pandora's Box.

7. Where did Osterholm grow up?
(a) Waukon, Iowa.
(b) New Mahoning, Pennsylvania.
(c) Marshall, Ohio.
(d) Walker, Wisconsin.

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

9. What does the One Health movement strive to do?
(a) Emphasize the idea that we need to understand the health of both humans and animals to prevent human disease.
(b) Try to find new vaccines for use in the developing world.
(c) Emphasize that it is the health of the individual that is the most important.
(d) Try to foster public health information-sharing between countries.

10. About how much money is spent on AIDS vaccine research every year?
(a) About 10 million dollars.
(b) About 500 million dollars.
(c) About 100 million dollars.
(d) About one billion dollars.

11. Which former president of Harvard University does Osterholm quote in Chapter 8?
(a) Noam Chompsky.
(b) Joan Sondland.
(c) Elliot Nasser.
(d) Lawrence Summers.

12. in 2014, how many people worldwide died from AIDS?
(a) 1.2 million.
(b) 8 million.
(c) 3.4 million.
(d) 5 million.

13. How many people does the WHO estimate might be infected with latent tuberculosis?
(a) About half of the world's population.
(b) About 1 billion people.
(c) About 500 million people.
(d) About one-third of the world's population.

14. Who was the head of the first meeting Osterholm attended about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, before doctors knew what they were dealing with?
(a) Dr. Lauren Collins.
(b) Dr. James Curran.
(c) Dr. Michael Redfield.
(d) Dr. Deborah Hinkle.

15. What is one way in which a person's immune system can overreact to a pathogen?
(a) By cutting back production of microbiome cells.
(b) By producing too many red blood cells.
(c) By producing cancer cells.
(d) By producing a cytokine storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the unchanging features of a virus called?

2. What process for killing bacteria is Louis Pasteur famous for discovering?

3. Which of the following is the title of an earlier book written by Osterholm that he refers to in Chapter 8?

4. What is the United Nations' target date for ending the AIDS epidemic?

5. What organization did Osterholm found at the University of Minnesota?

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