Q 01/05

What kind of protection does a vaccine provide?

A) Passive inherited immunity

B) Active acquired immunity

C) Innate immunity

D) Passive acquired immunity

Answer · why

B) Active acquired immunity

Active acquired immunity leaves the body with a memory of the germ, so protection can last for years, while ready-made antibodies fade within months.

Q 02/05

Which Salem-era Puritan minister learned about smallpox inoculation from Onesimus, a man he enslaved?

A) Jonathan Edwards

B) John Winthrop

C) Cotton Mather

D) Roger Williams

Answer · why

C) Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather pressed Boston's doctors to inoculate during the 1721 epidemic, and someone hurled a lit grenade into his home.

Q 03/05

Which Founding Father lost his four-year-old son to smallpox, then regretted never having the boy inoculated?

A) John Adams

B) Benjamin Franklin

C) Alexander Hamilton

D) Thomas Jefferson

Answer · why

B) Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin told the story in his autobiography for parents who avoided inoculation, fearing they could never forgive themselves if it went wron...

Q 04/05

In 2021, the WHO recommended the first vaccine against which disease, a leading killer of young African children?

A) Cholera

B) Dengue

C) Malaria

D) Typhoid

Answer · why

C) Malaria

Malaria: the RTS,S shot cut deadly severe malaria among young children, and in 2023 the WHO backed a second vaccine, R21.

Q 05/05

Who brought the folk practice of smallpox inoculation from Turkey to Britain in 1721?

A) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

B) Mary Seacole

C) Florence Nightingale

D) Lady Hester Stanhope

Answer · why

A) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose face smallpox had scarred, had her own young daughter inoculated when an epidemic threatened England.