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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. In 2014, how many air passengers flew between the United States and the rest of the world?
(a) 300 million.
(b) 100 million.
(c) 50 million.
(d) 186 million.

2. What does Osterholm identify as the first pathogen of pandemic potential in Chapter 4?
(a) Marburg.
(b) Coronavirus.
(c) Penicillin.
(d) Influenza.

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

4. What is the nickname some in the media started giving to Osterholm?
(a) Mike the Tank.
(b) Mike the Smart.
(c) Bad News Mike.
(d) Mike the Great.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which professional was responsible for naming the HIV/AIDS virus in the early 1980s?

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

3. What was the average life-expectancy in the United States in the year 1900?

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

5. What was the 1918 flu epidemic commonly known as?

(see the answer key)

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