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

2. Why did President Nixon curtail the American offensive bioprogram in 1969?
(a) He thought his political opponents would use it against him.
(b) His Secretary of Dense advised him to shut it down.
(c) He thought it could not achieve any military advantage.
(d) He thought it cost too much.

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

4. Who created the polio vaccine?
(a) Dr. James Curran.
(b) Dr. Edward Murrow.
(c) Dr. Michael Riker.
(d) Dr. Jonas Salk.

5. What was the 1918 flu epidemic commonly known as?
(a) The War Flu.
(b) The Spanish Flu.
(c) The Italian Flu.
(d) The British Flu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What process for killing bacteria is Louis Pasteur famous for discovering?

2. In 2014, how many air passengers flew between the United States and the rest of the world?

3. What type of pneumonia did doctors begin to see in early HIV/AIDS patients?

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

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

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