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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. Albert Schweitzer.
(b) Dr. Jeanette Jenkins.
(c) Dr. Richard Hauser.
(d) Dr. Margaret Schweitzer.

2. Which of the following is the title of an earlier book written by Osterholm that he refers to in Chapter 8?
(a) Living Terrors.
(b) Pathogens of Pandemic Potential.
(c) Toxic Shock and its Aftermath.
(d) Finding the Cure.

3. Why did President Nixon curtail the American offensive bioprogram in 1969?
(a) He thought his political opponents would use it against him.
(b) He thought it could not achieve any military advantage.
(c) His Secretary of Dense advised him to shut it down.
(d) He thought it cost too much.

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

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

6. What does means of transmission mean in terms of viruses?
(a) The way viruses are taken over by other viruses.
(b) The way a virus gets from one place to another.
(c) The way a virus dies.
(d) The way a virus is prevented by a vaccine.

7. What was the Supreme Court Ruling in the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts case?
(a) The benefit of the smallpox vaccine to public health outweighed an individual's right to refuse the vaccine.
(b) Only children with religious exemptions could be allowed not to have the smallpox vaccine.
(c) All people who wanted to travel abroad had to have the smallpox vaccine first.
(d) All children who wanted to attend public school had to have the smallpox vaccine.

8. In what year was there a measles outbreak in Minnesota?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1991.

9. Who was the head of the first meeting Osterholm attended about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, before doctors knew what they were dealing with?
(a) Dr. Lauren Collins.
(b) Dr. Deborah Hinkle.
(c) Dr. James Curran.
(d) Dr. Michael Redfield.

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

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

12. What bestelling book did Richard Preston write in 1994?
(a) The Shining.
(b) The Hot Zone.
(c) Contagion.
(d) OUtbreak.

13. What turned out to be causing the diarrheal illness in Minnesota that Osterholm investigated in 1984?
(a) Bacteria from a peanut-processing plant.
(b) Bacteria in raw milk.
(c) Pathogens on canteloupes.
(d) Pathogens on spinach.

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

15. What does Osterholm say is the scariest means of transmission for a pathogen?
(a) Surfaces.
(b) Lungs.
(c) Water.
(d) Blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans?

2. What type of pneumonia did doctors begin to see in early HIV/AIDS patients?

3. Which doctor was responsible for figuring out the source of a cholera outbreak in London in the 1850s?

4. Which creature is most responsible for spreading malaria?

5. What is one antibiotic commonly used to threat anthrax?

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