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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 19 - 21).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Osterholm notes in Chapter 17 that in his experience, what gets acted upon is related to which of the following?
(a) What gets the right person's attention.
(b) What scares enough people.
(c) What gets counted.
(d) What gets money.

2. How many West African children were orphaned by the Ebola outbreak in 2014?
(a) About 100,000.
(b) About 10,000.
(c) About 50,000.
(d) About 30,000.

3. What did Dr. Anne Schuchat say about the tools we had to fight SARS in 2003?
(a) They are dependent on people adhering to social distancing guidelines.
(b) They were the same ones we have had for hundreds of years.
(c) They are entirely dependent on a successful vaccine.
(d) They are all very expensive.

4. What is one way in which a person's immune system can overreact to a pathogen?
(a) By producing a cytokine storm.
(b) By cutting back production of microbiome cells.
(c) By producing cancer cells.
(d) By producing too many red blood cells.

5. In Chapter 14, what does Osterholm's father do that devastates Osterholm?
(a) Injures Osterholm's sister.
(b) Injures Osterholm's mother.
(c) Injures Osterholm so that he can not play sports any longer.
(d) Destroys some of Osterholm's lab equipment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who succeeded Tommy Thompson as Health and Human Services director?

2. The use of which of the following pathogens shut down a major senate office building in 2001?

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

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

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

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