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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many Nobel Prizes have been awarded to recipients who have contributed to the fight against malaria?
(a) 20.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

3. What can anthrax be hidden in its dried form, according to Osterholm?
(a) Soil.
(b) Any white powder.
(c) Cakes.
(d) Flowers.

4. What is one aspect Osterholm identifies as favorable for virus transmission in his "current world conditions" category in Chapter 8?
(a) Humans sharing more drinks and food.
(b) Close contact between humans and animals.
(c) Humans having more surgeries.
(d) Humans swimming in rivers.

5. How are vector-borne diseases spread?
(a) By humans.
(b) By blood.
(c) Through the water.
(d) By mosquitoes, ticks and flies.

6. Which organization helped to fund the development of the polio vaccine?
(a) The March of Dimes.
(b) The Clean Air Fund.
(c) The St. Joseph's Fund.
(d) The Children's Hospital Fund.

7. What does Osterholm say is the average time from vaccine development to public availability?
(a) About 1 year.
(b) About 3 years.
(c) About 15 years.
(d) About 10 years.

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

9. What brand of tampon turned out to be closely associated with cases of TSS in the 1980s?
(a) Assure.
(b) Be Free.
(c) Rely.
(d) Protect.

10. How does Osterholm refer to vaccinations?
(a) As the sharpest arrow in the public health quiver.
(b) As one rung on a ladder of protection.
(c) As not nearly as important as developing new antibiotics.
(d) As the most significant advance by humans in the twentieth century.

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

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

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

14. Which part of Africa did the Ebola outbreak occur in in 2014?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) West.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, what does Osterholm say is NOT part of the public health agenda?

3. What is the premise that the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is based on, as Osterholm explains it in Chapter 9?

4. About how much money is spent on AIDS vaccine research every year?

5. What was the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) known informally as when Osterholm was in medical school?

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