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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was the George W. Bush-era Health and Human Services Secretary Osterholm has worked closely with?
(a) Kristen Henderson.
(b) Michael Henry.
(c) Maria Solnar.
(d) Tommy Thompson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which chemical did the U.S. Army issue to personnel stationed in areas where there were many mosquitoes?

2. What was the Supreme Court Ruling in the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts case?

3. On whose program did the creator of the polio vaccine announce that he was not patenting the vaccine in 1955?

4. What is the abbreviation for the combination vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis?

5. What flu strain does Osterholm call the grandfather of bird-flu viruses?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what intensely personal detail of his early life does Osterholm share with the reader?

2. In Osterholm's opinion, how do our influenza vaccines need to change?

3. What did Osterholm try to emphasize for helping stop the spread of AIDS in the mid-1980s, as separate from vaccines?

4. What does Osterholm say public health science is based on, and how does the public perceive these things?

5. What is one of the factors Osterholm thinks contributed to the anti-vaccine movement?

6. In Chapter 4, what does Osterholm reveal as what he thinks is the probable cause of the world's next pandemic?

7. What is the term Osterholm uses for the process of a microbe moving from one place to another host?

8. What does Osterholm view as the scariest means of transmission for microbes, and why?

9. How does Osterholm distinguish between a so-called good death and a bad death?

10. What are two major diseases the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has put large amounts of money into developing vaccines for?

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