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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 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) The benefit of the smallpox vaccine to public health outweighed an individual's right to refuse the vaccine.
(c) All people who wanted to travel abroad had to have the smallpox vaccine first.
(d) Only children with religious exemptions could be allowed not to have the smallpox vaccine.

2. In what year did the CDC recommended universal HIV screening?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1992.
(d) 2006.

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

4. The use of which of the following pathogens shut down a major senate office building in 2001?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Anthrax.
(c) Measles.
(d) Smallpox.

5. What was the 1918 flu epidemic commonly known as?
(a) The British Flu.
(b) The Spanish Flu.
(c) The Italian Flu.
(d) The War Flu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which doctor does Osterholm begin Chapter 2 with a quote from?

2. What disease did Edward Jenner help discover the first means of vaccination for?

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

4. In 2001, what was the name of the senate building that was shut down for months due to an anthrax contamination?

5. Which Greek myth does Osterholm invoke in the beginning of Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was John Snow's work so important in the 1800s?

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

6. In Chapter 1, what is the term Osterholm uses for an event that comes as a surprise and is a major disrupting influence on society?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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