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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the Supreme Court Ruling in the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts case?

4. Where did Osterholm grow up?

5. What does the One Health movement strive to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Osterholm view as the scariest means of transmission for microbes, and why?

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

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

5. What is one of the reasons human are at a disadvantage to microbes?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were some of the significant mistakes public health officials made in the early days of the AIDS crisis, according to Osterholm? What are some of the decisions and ideas public health officials put into action in the early days of the AIDS crisis that Osterholm praises? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

According to Osterholm, what is the relationship between widespread antibiotic use in livestock and the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Why are people living in some megacities around the world potentially more vulnerable to outbreaks caused by some pathogens that those living in more rural or less dense environments? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text.

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