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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. Why did President Nixon curtail the American offensive bioprogram in 1969?
(a) He thought it could not achieve any military advantage.
(b) He thought it cost too much.
(c) His Secretary of Dense advised him to shut it down.
(d) He thought his political opponents would use it against him.

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

3. Which writer does Osterholm open Chapter 21 with a quote from?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Jane Eyre.
(d) Charles Dickens.

4. What type of pneumonia did doctors begin to see in early HIV/AIDS patients?
(a) Marshall Island pneumonia.
(b) Stases pneumonia.
(c) Complex pneumonia.
(d) Pneumocystis carinii.

5. Which book did Rachel Carson write that raised questions about the safety of commonly used chemicals to kill mosquitoes?
(a) Killing the Land.
(b) Endless Night.
(c) Dark Waters.
(d) Silent Spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who convened a panel of experts in 1965 to discuss whether new antibiotics were needed?

2. Where did the 2012 outbreak of MERS seem to originate?

3. Which Florida Senator expressed alarm over mosquito-borne infections in the aftermath of the Zika outbreak?

4. What company did Bill Gates found?

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

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