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

2. How many Nobel Prizes have been awarded to recipients who have contributed to the fight against malaria?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

3. What prevents some people from finishing their doses of malaria medication?
(a) It has to be taken for two weeks.
(b) It has to be taken for one week.
(c) It has to be taken for three days.
(d) It has to be taken for one month.

4. The use of which of the following pathogens shut down a major senate office building in 2001?
(a) Measles.
(b) Anthrax.
(c) Mumps.
(d) Smallpox.

5. What is one antibiotic commonly used to threat anthrax?
(a) Ambigen.
(b) Penicillin.
(c) Corilot.
(d) Ciprofloxacin.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how much money is spent on AIDS vaccine research every year?

2. What brand of tampon turned out to be closely associated with cases of TSS in the 1980s?

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

4. Who announced in the early 1980s that an AIDS vaccine would be ready within two years?

5. Which doctor was responsible for figuring out the source of a cholera outbreak in London in the 1850s?

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