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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 19 - 21).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who succeeded Tommy Thompson as Health and Human Services director?
(a) Noreen Davidson.
(b) Tom Ridge.
(c) Susan Richards.
(d) Mike Leavitt.

2. What type of antibiotic use on some large chicken farms in India is of particular concern for scientists studying the rise of drug-resistant microbes?
(a) Antibiotic cocktails that combine the strong drug colistin with several others.
(b) The off-label uses of antibiotics on chicken farms.
(c) The under-dosing of antibiotics for sick chickens.
(d) The super-dosing of the strongest antibiotics we have.

3. In what American city did one case of Ebola send shockwaves in 2015?
(a) San Francisco, California.
(b) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(c) Dallas, Texas.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

4. Who announced in the early 1980s that an AIDS vaccine would be ready within two years?
(a) Secretary of Health Alexander Williams.
(b) Secretary of Health Margaret Heckler.
(c) Secretary of State Casper Williams.
(d) Secretary of State Robards Jasper.

5. 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) James Jeffrie's.
(c) Walter Winchell's.
(d) Barbara Walter's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which part of Minnesota did Osterholm investigate an outbreak of diarrheal illness in 1984?

2. What was the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) known informally as when Osterholm was in medical school?

3. What is the absentee rate due to influenza in the second U.S. wave in Chapter 19, in Osterholm's scenario?

4. What syndrome did Osterholm do extensive work on in the early 1980s?

5. How much of the WHO's budget does the U.S. government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation account for?

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