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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. Where do about 90% of malaria deaths occur in the world?
(a) America.
(b) Sub-Saharan Africa.
(c) India.
(d) The Middle East.

2. What is one of the problems with the vaccine industry, according to Osterholm?
(a) It is difficult for companies to predict the need for a particular vaccine.
(b) Companies can not usually make money on vaccines.
(c) More people do not want to take vaccines, so it is less profitable to make them.
(d) Some vaccines become contaminated easily, so there is a lot of waste.

3. Who introduced the term "black swan event"?
(a) Edward Jenner.
(b) John Snow.
(c) James Curtland.
(d) Nassim Nicholas.

4. What was the Supreme Court Ruling in the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts case?
(a) Only children with religious exemptions could be allowed not to have the smallpox vaccine.
(b) The benefit of the smallpox vaccine to public health outweighed an individual's right to refuse the vaccine.
(c) All children who wanted to attend public school had to have the smallpox vaccine.
(d) All people who wanted to travel abroad had to have the smallpox vaccine first.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What company did Bill Gates found?

3. What is one antibiotic commonly used to threat anthrax?

4. What is one of the two metaphors Osterholm uses for fighting viruses throughout the book?

5. In what year was there a measles outbreak in Minnesota?

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