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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which doctor does Osterholm begin Chapter 2 with a quote from?
(a) Dr. Margaret Schweitzer.
(b) Dr. Jeanette Jenkins.
(c) Dr. Richard Hauser.
(d) Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

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

3. In what year did the CDC recommended universal HIV screening?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2006.

4. What is one of the main problems with the flu vaccine, according to Osterholm?
(a) It is too expensive.
(b) It can only be administered via a nasal spray.
(c) It changes every year.
(d) It makes one's arm very sore.

5. What was the American infant mortality rate at the turn of the twentieth century?
(a) 60 - 70%.
(b) 20 - 30%.
(c) 40 - 50%.
(d) 10 - 20%.

6. What kind of graph do epidemiologists use to try to figure out what threats they should be worrying about in public health?
(a) A Marshall Matrix.
(b) A threat matrix.
(c) A Bell Curve.
(d) An Addington's Graph.

7. Which doctor was responsible for figuring out the source of a cholera outbreak in London in the 1850s?
(a) Marshall Robards.
(b) Edward Jenner.
(c) John Snow.
(d) Alexander Fleming.

8. About how much money is spent on AIDS vaccine research every year?
(a) About one billion dollars.
(b) About 100 million dollars.
(c) About 10 million dollars.
(d) About 500 million dollars.

9. 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) Barbara Walter's.
(c) Edward R. Murrow's.
(d) Walter Winchell's.

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

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

12. Which disease did the Gates Foundation take the lead in trying to eradicate?
(a) Polio.
(b) Ebola.
(c) Dengue fever.
(d) Yellow Fever.

13. What disease did Edward Jenner help discover the first means of vaccination for?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Polio.
(c) Mumps.
(d) Measles.

14. 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 find new vaccines for use in the developing world.
(d) Try to foster public health information-sharing between countries.

15. Which 2004 report summarized the scientific community's concerns about bioterrorism?
(a) The Starkum Report.
(b) The Fink Report.
(c) The Teller Report.
(d) The Morning Report.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Osterholm refer to vaccinations?

4. In Chapter 6, Osterholm emphasizes that anthrax is not which of the following kinds of diseases?

5. In Chapter 8, who is considered one of the founders of vaccinations?

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