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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. How does Osterholm refer to vaccinations?
(a) As the sharpest arrow in the public health quiver.
(b) As the most significant advance by humans in the twentieth century.
(c) As one rung on a ladder of protection.
(d) As not nearly as important as developing new antibiotics.

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

3. What does the One Health movement strive to do?
(a) Try to find new vaccines for use in the developing world.
(b) Emphasize the idea that we need to understand the health of both humans and animals to prevent human disease.
(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.

4. When did Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans?
(a) September 15, 2006.
(b) September 28, 2006.
(c) August 15, 2005.
(d) August 29, 2005.

5. Which family member of Osterholm's contracted the HIV virus through a blood transfusion in the 1980s?
(a) His Aunt Romana.
(b) His Uncle Roman.
(c) His mother, Ellen.
(d) His brother Mithchell.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the American infant mortality rate at the turn of the twentieth century?

5. Who created the polio vaccine?

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