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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 15 - 18).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the One Health movement strive to do?
(a) Emphasize that it is the health of the individual that is the most important.
(b) Emphasize the idea that we need to understand the health of both humans and animals to prevent human disease.
(c) Try to foster public health information-sharing between countries.
(d) Try to find new vaccines for use in the developing world.

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

4. In 2001, what was the name of the senate building that was shut down for months due to an anthrax contamination?
(a) The Carter Senate Office Building.
(b) The Chamber Senate Office Building.
(c) The Hart Senate Office Building.
(d) The Marshall Senate Office Building.

5. In 2014, how many air passengers flew between the United States and the rest of the world?
(a) 300 million.
(b) 50 million.
(c) 186 million.
(d) 100 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did President Nixon curtail the American offensive bioprogram in 1969?

2. What are the unchanging features of a virus called?

3. What publication did Osterholm almost pull an op-ed he wrote about Zika from in 2016?

4. Which book did Rachel Carson write that raised questions about the safety of commonly used chemicals to kill mosquitoes?

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

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