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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. Which chemical did the U.S. Army issue to personnel stationed in areas where there were many mosquitoes?
(a) Lechthin.
(b) Estrogen.
(c) Permethrin.
(d) Liathin.

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

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

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

5. About how much money is spent on AIDS vaccine research every year?
(a) About 10 million dollars.
(b) About 500 million dollars.
(c) About one billion dollars.
(d) About 100 million dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the George W. Bush-era Health and Human Services Secretary Osterholm has worked closely with?

2. Which part of Africa did the Ebola outbreak occur in in 2014?

3. What kind of graph do epidemiologists use to try to figure out what threats they should be worrying about in public health?

4. What was President George W. Bush's emergency plan for combating AIDS?

5. Who announced in the early 1980s that an AIDS vaccine would be ready within two years?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Dr. Jonas Salk such a hero to so many parents in the 1950s?

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

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

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

5. Why was the Spanish Flu so named, even though it likely did not originate in Spain?

6. What is the interaction between tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS?

7. What are some of the current world conditions Osterholm identifies as aiding the transmission of diseases?

8. In the Introduction, what are the two metaphors for disease that Osterholm sets out for use throughout the book?

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

10. What is one of the main reasons Osterholm says it is quicker to produce drugs than vaccines?

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