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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. Which advisor of Osterholm's does Osterholm remember as being particularly kind and empathetic towards him in Chapter 14?
(a) Dr. Samuel Clemens.
(b) Dr. Anthony Fauci.
(c) Dr. James Curran.
(d) Dr. William Hausler.

2. In Chapter 8, who is considered one of the founders of vaccinations?
(a) James Curran.
(b) Edward Jenner.
(c) Alexander Fleming.
(d) John Snow.

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

4. Who was the George W. Bush-era Health and Human Services Secretary Osterholm has worked closely with?
(a) Tommy Thompson.
(b) Kristen Henderson.
(c) Maria Solnar.
(d) Michael Henry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans?

2. Which animal does Osterholm think helped spread MERS to humans?

3. Which public health agency issued a document about warning signs of Influenza strains in 2015?

4. Who announced in the early 1980s that an AIDS vaccine would be ready within two years?

5. What was the American infant mortality rate at the turn of the twentieth century?

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