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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 of the following is widely used to grow vaccines?
(a) Water.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Yeast.
(d) Algae.

2. Which doctor does Osterholm begin Chapter 2 with a quote from?
(a) Dr. Richard Hauser.
(b) Dr. Jeanette Jenkins.
(c) Dr. Margaret Schweitzer.
(d) Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

3. How many people does the WHO estimate might be infected with latent tuberculosis?
(a) About one-third of the world's population.
(b) About 500 million people.
(c) About 1 billion people.
(d) About half of the world's population.

4. What does Osterholm identify as the first pathogen of pandemic potential in Chapter 4?
(a) Marburg.
(b) Coronavirus.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Penicillin.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the American infant mortality rate at the turn of the twentieth century?

3. Who was the director of the NIH, as mentioned by Osterholm in Chapter 10?

4. What process for killing bacteria is Louis Pasteur famous for discovering?

5. What is the premise that the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is based on, as Osterholm explains it in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. What common product did Osterholm and his colleagues eventually trace the development of toxic shock syndrome to?

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

3. In Chapter 1, why does the CDC's Jim Curran move quickly to name the AIDS disease as it is named?

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

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

6. Which populations are most affected by malaria infections?

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

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

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

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

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