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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do USAMRIID scientists eventually conclude about Ebola?
(a) It has mutated to only infect humans.
(b) It can spread through the air.
(c) It cannot spread through the air.
(d) It will never infect humans again.

2. Where does the team of 91-Tangos get dinner?
(a) The CDC caters a meal for them.
(b) At Taco Bell.
(c) Dan Dalgard prepares the meal.
(d) From USAMRIID.

3. Who decons out with Rhonda?
(a) Jerry Jaax.
(b) Gene Johnson.
(c) Charlotte Godwin.
(d) Mark Haines.

4. What do the Hazleton employees do with the dead monkeys?
(a) Bury them in a company plot.
(b) Send them to the CDC to be destroyed.
(c) Send them to USAMRIID to be destroyed.
(d) Incinerate them.

5. Who decides he is not going to go inside the monkey house because he cannot bear to see monkeys die?
(a) Dan Dalgard.
(b) Gene Johnson.
(c) Bill Volt.
(d) Jerry Jaax.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is McCormick afraid he has been infected?

2. What reason does Preston give for visiting Kitum Cave?

3. Who is the person who first photographed the Ebola virus?

4. How do Nancy Jaax, Peters, and Gene Johnson travel to meet Dan Dalgard?

5. What do the eyes of the monkey that Nancy is cutting open look like?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Preston characterize the emergence of HIV as "subtle"?

2. Describe the close calls that Gene Johnson has had with Level 4 hot agents.

3. What is the Army's policy about hazard pay for biohazard work?

4. Why doesn't Jerry like the idea of shooting the loose monkey?

5. Why can't a security card be brought into the higher levels of a biosafety lab?

6. What are the three methods of stopping a virus?

7. What is ironic about the position that C.J. Peters leaves USAMRIID for?

8. Why do the remaining monkey workers leave the monkey house for good?

9. What are the results of Nancy's examination of the monkey's stomach?

10. Even though C.J. Peters has a strong dislike for Joe McCormick, why does he also respect him?

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