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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flu strain does Osterholm call the grandfather of bird-flu viruses?
(a) H5N3.
(b) H1N1.
(c) H5N1.
(d) H7N4.

2. Which of the following is widely used to grow vaccines?
(a) Algae.
(b) Water.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Yeast.

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

4. Which creature is most responsible for spreading malaria?
(a) Bats.
(b) Mosquitoes.
(c) Cats.
(d) Rats.

5. What was the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) known informally as when Osterholm was in medical school?
(a) The kissing disease.
(b) The crown disease.
(c) The right disease.
(d) The foot disease.

6. In what American city did one case of Ebola send shockwaves in 2015?
(a) Dallas, Texas.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(d) San Francisco, California.

7. In which part of Minnesota did Osterholm investigate an outbreak of diarrheal illness in 1984?
(a) Willow.
(b) Minneapolis.
(c) Brainerd.
(d) Framewood.

8. Where did Osterholm grow up?
(a) Marshall, Ohio.
(b) Walker, Wisconsin.
(c) Waukon, Iowa.
(d) New Mahoning, Pennsylvania.

9. What organization did Osterholm found at the University of Minnesota?
(a) CIDRAP.
(b) CDC.
(c) MARBAP.
(d) MRYX.

10. What process for killing bacteria is Louis Pasteur famous for discovering?
(a) Pasteurization.
(b) Mobilization.
(c) Variation.
(d) Sterilization.

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

12. In Chapter 6, Osterholm emphasizes that anthrax is not which of the following kinds of diseases?
(a) Stable.
(b) Communicable.
(c) Hemorrhagic.
(d) Amorphous.

13. What is one of the two metaphors Osterholm uses for fighting viruses throughout the book?
(a) War.
(b) Famine.
(c) Envy.
(d) Pestilence.

14. Who created the polio vaccine?
(a) Dr. James Curran.
(b) Dr. Michael Riker.
(c) Dr. Edward Murrow.
(d) Dr. Jonas Salk.

15. What is the premise that the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is based on, as Osterholm explains it in Chapter 9?
(a) We all need to work together to make the world a healthier place.
(b) Money is not worth anything if it is not helping people.
(c) All lives have equal value.
(d) Everyone has a right to vaccinations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On whose program did the creator of the polio vaccine announce that he was not patenting the vaccine in 1955?

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

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

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

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