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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 12 - 14).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the unchanging features of a virus called?
(a) Stalked.
(b) Static.
(c) Stable.
(d) Conserved.

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

4. What bestelling book did Richard Preston write in 1994?
(a) The Shining.
(b) The Hot Zone.
(c) Contagion.
(d) OUtbreak.

5. What type of pneumonia did doctors begin to see in early HIV/AIDS patients?
(a) Stases pneumonia.
(b) Pneumocystis carinii.
(c) Complex pneumonia.
(d) Marshall Island pneumonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Osterholm claim the worldwide pharmaceutical industry had in revenue in 2014?

2. What possibility about Ebola was Osterholm criticized for bringing up in a 2014 op-ed in the New York Times?

3. How did yellow fever get its name?

4. Which 2004 report summarized the scientific community's concerns about bioterrorism?

5. Which advisor of Osterholm's does Osterholm remember as being particularly kind and empathetic towards him in Chapter 14?

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