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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In 2014, how many air passengers flew between the United States and the rest of the world?
(a) 50 million.
(b) 100 million.
(c) 300 million.
(d) 186 million.

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

8. Which Greek myth does Osterholm invoke in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) The Minotaur and the Labyrinth.
(b) The Golden Fleece.
(c) Achilles's Heel.
(d) Pandora's Box.

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

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

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

12. What is one of the problems with the vaccine industry, according to Osterholm?
(a) Companies can not usually make money on vaccines.
(b) Some vaccines become contaminated easily, so there is a lot of waste.
(c) It is difficult for companies to predict the need for a particular vaccine.
(d) More people do not want to take vaccines, so it is less profitable to make them.

13. How much does Osterholm claim the worldwide pharmaceutical industry had in revenue in 2014?
(a) More than $1 trillion.
(b) About $50 billion.
(c) More than $1 billion.
(d) About $500 billion.

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

15. 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. Deborah Hinkle.
(b) Dr. Michael Redfield.
(c) Dr. James Curran.
(d) Dr. Lauren Collins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What syndrome did Osterholm do extensive work on in the early 1980s?

2. What group did congress establish in 2006 to help provide a good approach to vaccine development?

3. What is one of the main problems with the flu vaccine, according to Osterholm?

4. Which family member of Osterholm's contracted the HIV virus through a blood transfusion in the 1980s?

5. When did Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans?

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