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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Peter Cardinal want to go to Kitum Cave?
(a) To practice his caving skills.
(b) To photograph elephants.
(c) To collect crystals.
(d) To see bats.

2. What is the name of the doctor who treats Charles Monet?
(a) Shem Musoke.
(b) Johnnie.
(c) Peter Cardinal.
(d) Nancy Jaax.

3. What pet lives with Nancy and her family?
(a) A dog.
(b) A python.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) A parrot.

4. What is on Peter Jahrling's license plate?
(a) VRS HNTR.
(b) EBOLA.
(c) MARBURG.
(d) LASSA.

5. Who was the index case of Ebola Sudan?
(a) Heinrich P.
(b) Charles Monet.
(c) Mr. Yu G.
(d) Mr. P. G.

6. What is the fatality rate of Ebola Sudan?
(a) Twenty five percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Ninety percent.
(d) Ten percent.

7. Who worked in the Yambuku Mission Hospital?
(a) Belgian nuns.
(b) The Zairean military.
(c) Spanish doctors.
(d) The government.

8. What are viruses made of?
(a) Bacteria.
(b) Oxygen and hydrogen.
(c) Calcium.
(d) DNA or RNA.

9. Who was Peter Cardinal's doctor at Nairobi Hospital?
(a) Dr. David Silverstein.
(b) Dr. Nancy Jaax.
(c) Dr. Antonia Bagshawe.
(d) Dr. Shem Musoke.

10. Who is the colony manger at the Reston Monkey House?
(a) Bill Volt.
(b) Dan Dalgard.
(c) Jerry Jaax.
(d) Shem Musoke.

11. What does the word "filovirus" mean in Latin?
(a) Harmless virus.
(b) Deadly virus.
(c) Thread virus.
(d) Ring virus.

12. What is the Boniface strain a test for?
(a) Marburg.
(b) Ebola Zaire.
(c) Ebola Sudan.
(d) Simian hemorrhagic fever.

13. What are "bricks"?
(a) Proteins.
(b) Cell nucleoids.
(c) Cracks in the cell.
(d) Crystalloids of virus ready to hatch.

14. What is a nickname for crab-eating monkeys?
(a) Weaver monkeys.
(b) Medical monkeys.
(c) Kras.
(d) Fish monkeys.

15. Who is the first person Dalgard calls after talking to Peter Jahrling?
(a) Bill Volt.
(b) Tom Geisbert.
(c) C.J. Peters.
(d) Nancy Jaax.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Peter Jahrling ultimately realize had infected the monkeys?

2. What is one of the nicknames of USAMRIID?

3. How many biocontainment levels are in USAMRIID?

4. Where did the initial outbreak of Ebola Zaire begin?

5. Where are the Sese Islands?

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