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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was President George W. Bush's emergency plan for combating AIDS?
(a) PEPFAR.
(b) MORTAT.
(c) LARGEN.
(d) PENSIVE.

2. What is the nickname some in the media started giving to Osterholm?
(a) Mike the Smart.
(b) Mike the Tank.
(c) Bad News Mike.
(d) Mike the Great.

3. In 2001, what was the name of the senate building that was shut down for months due to an anthrax contamination?
(a) The Hart Senate Office Building.
(b) The Marshall Senate Office Building.
(c) The Carter Senate Office Building.
(d) The Chamber Senate Office Building.

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

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

6. 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.

7. Who introduced the term "black swan event"?
(a) Nassim Nicholas.
(b) James Curtland.
(c) John Snow.
(d) Edward Jenner.

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

9. 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) He thought it cost too much.
(d) His Secretary of Dense advised him to shut it down.

10. Which family member of Osterholm's contracted the HIV virus through a blood transfusion in the 1980s?
(a) His Aunt Romana.
(b) His brother Mithchell.
(c) His mother, Ellen.
(d) His Uncle Roman.

11. 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) All lives have equal value.
(c) Everyone has a right to vaccinations.
(d) Money is not worth anything if it is not helping people.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What turned out to be causing the diarrheal illness in Minnesota that Osterholm investigated in 1984?

2. What is one aspect Osterholm identifies as favorable for virus transmission in his "current world conditions" category in Chapter 8?

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

4. How many people does the WHO estimate might be infected with latent tuberculosis?

5. Which professional was responsible for naming the HIV/AIDS virus in the early 1980s?

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