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

2. On whose program did the creator of the polio vaccine announce that he was not patenting the vaccine in 1955?
(a) James Jeffrie's.
(b) Barbara Walter's.
(c) Walter Winchell's.
(d) Edward R. Murrow's.

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

4. What group did congress establish in 2006 to help provide a good approach to vaccine development?
(a) The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
(b) The Jonas Salk Institute for Medical Advancement.
(c) The Medical Research and Vaccine Group.
(d) The Vaccine and Public Health Authority.

5. Which professional was responsible for naming the HIV/AIDS virus in the early 1980s?
(a) Dr. James Curran.
(b) Dr. Jennifer Riles.
(c) Dr. Bill Foege.
(d) Dr. Michael Osterholm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which organization helped to fund the development of the polio vaccine?

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

3. The use of which of the following pathogens shut down a major senate office building in 2001?

4. How are vector-borne diseases spread?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the deadliest pandemic of the modern era?

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

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

4. What is one sometimes fatal reaction the human body has to microbes, especially in those with strong immune systems?

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

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

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

8. What were the two relatively rare conditions doctors began seeing in patients at the outset of the AIDS epidemic?

9. Who is considered one of the first creators of the vaccine, and what illness did this person discover the earliest form of the vaccine for?

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

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