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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. Who was the director of the NIH, as mentioned by Osterholm in Chapter 10?
(a) Dr. Marsha Hemsworth.
(b) Dr. Francis Collins.
(c) Dr. Jennifer Jones.
(d) Dr. Lucille Barnes.

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

3. What is the premise that the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is based on, as Osterholm explains it in Chapter 9?
(a) Everyone has a right to vaccinations.
(b) Money is not worth anything if it is not helping people.
(c) All lives have equal value.
(d) We all need to work together to make the world a healthier place.

4. Which former president of Harvard University does Osterholm quote in Chapter 8?
(a) Joan Sondland.
(b) Noam Chompsky.
(c) Elliot Nasser.
(d) Lawrence Summers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What type of pneumonia did doctors begin to see in early HIV/AIDS patients?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was Osterholm personally affected by the AIDS epidemic?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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