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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Introduction - Chapter 6).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What company did Bill Gates found?
(a) Apple.
(b) Zoom.
(c) Microsoft.
(d) Facebook.

2. In Chapter 2, what does Osterholm say is NOT part of the public health agenda?
(a) Curing babies of illness.
(b) Preventing death.
(c) Developing new vaccinations for diseases.
(d) Figuring out the causes of diseases.

3. 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 cancer cells.
(c) By producing too many red blood cells.
(d) By producing a cytokine storm.

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

5. What organization did Osterholm found at the University of Minnesota?
(a) CDC.
(b) MARBAP.
(c) CIDRAP.
(d) MRYX.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname some in the media started giving to Osterholm?

2. What bestelling book did Richard Preston write in 1994?

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

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

5. Who was the head of the first meeting Osterholm attended about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, before doctors knew what they were dealing with?

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