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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 is one antibiotic commonly used to threat anthrax?
(a) Ambigen.
(b) Penicillin.
(c) Ciprofloxacin.
(d) Corilot.

2. On whose program did the creator of the polio vaccine announce that he was not patenting the vaccine in 1955?
(a) Barbara Walter's.
(b) Edward R. Murrow's.
(c) Walter Winchell's.
(d) James Jeffrie's.

3. What is the United Nations' target date for ending the AIDS epidemic?
(a) 2025.
(b) 2040.
(c) 2045.
(d) 2030.

4. Who was the head of the first meeting Osterholm attended about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, before doctors knew what they were dealing with?
(a) Dr. Lauren Collins.
(b) Dr. Deborah Hinkle.
(c) Dr. Michael Redfield.
(d) Dr. James Curran.

5. Who announced in the early 1980s that an AIDS vaccine would be ready within two years?
(a) Secretary of Health Margaret Heckler.
(b) Secretary of State Robards Jasper.
(c) Secretary of State Casper Williams.
(d) Secretary of Health Alexander Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What syndrome did Osterholm do extensive work on in the early 1980s?

2. What company did Bill Gates found?

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

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

5. What is the premise that the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is based on, as Osterholm explains it in Chapter 9?

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