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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 15 - 18).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who created the polio vaccine?
(a) Dr. Edward Murrow.
(b) Dr. Jonas Salk.
(c) Dr. James Curran.
(d) Dr. Michael Riker.

3. In 2001, what was the name of the senate building that was shut down for months due to an anthrax contamination?
(a) The Marshall Senate Office Building.
(b) The Carter Senate Office Building.
(c) The Hart Senate Office Building.
(d) The Chamber Senate Office Building.

4. Which organization was focused on eradicating yellow fever as early as 1915?
(a) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
(b) The Aster Fund.
(c) The Joymal Foundation.
(d) The Rockefeller Foundation.

5. What possibility about Ebola was Osterholm criticized for bringing up in a 2014 op-ed in the New York Times?
(a) That it could mutate to become more lethal to older people.
(b) That it could mutate to become more lethal to children.
(c) That it could mutate to become more lethal to middle-aged people.
(d) That it could mutate to become airborne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Supreme Court Ruling in the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts case?

2. Osterholm notes in Chapter 17 that in his experience, what gets acted upon is related to which of the following?

3. What are the independent pieces of DNA that bacteria can sometimes share with each other?

4. What illness were doctors in cities along the Brazilian coast seeing a dramatic increase in in 2015?

5. Who is one of the leading independent journalists on public health, according to Osterholm in Chapter 16?

(see the answer key)

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