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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which creature is most responsible for spreading malaria?
(a) Bats.
(b) Cats.
(c) Rats.
(d) Mosquitoes.

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

5. What are the unchanging features of a virus called?
(a) Static.
(b) Conserved.
(c) Stable.
(d) Stalked.

6. What is one antibiotic commonly used to threat anthrax?
(a) Ambigen.
(b) Ciprofloxacin.
(c) Corilot.
(d) Penicillin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What prevents some people from finishing their doses of malaria medication?
(a) It has to be taken for one week.
(b) It has to be taken for two weeks.
(c) It has to be taken for three days.
(d) It has to be taken for one month.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the United Nations' target date for ending the AIDS epidemic?

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

3. What is one of the two metaphors Osterholm uses for fighting viruses throughout the book?

4. What is one way in which a person's immune system can overreact to a pathogen?

5. What was the average life-expectancy in the United States in the year 1900?

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