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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 does Frantig's condition make Dalgard decide to do?
(a) Call off the biocontainment mission.
(b) Evacuate the building of the monkey workers.
(c) Hand over the mission to the CDC.
(d) Quit his job.

2. What do the eyes of the monkey that Nancy is cutting open look like?
(a) They are normal.
(b) They are yellow.
(c) They have unusually dilated pupils.
(d) They are red.

3. What bothers Charlotte Godwin most about the monkey house?
(a) The heat.
(b) The noise.
(c) The quiet.
(d) The smell.

4. What is another name for the biocontainment pod?
(a) Ambulance.
(b) A bubble stretcher.
(c) Portable slammer.
(d) A refrigerator truck.

5. About how many elephants make up the Mount Elgon herd?
(a) One thousand.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Two hundred.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dalgard is worried that whom may have been exposed to the hot agent in the monkey house?

2. Why does Milton Frantig apologize to Dalgard?

3. What happens in the monkey house a month after the building was deconned?

4. Where did McCormick study human cases of Ebola?

5. What did Bill Volt offer to Gene Johnson and Sergeant Klages when they visited on their reconnaissance mission that bothered the two men?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the team from USAMRIID decide to wear civilian clothes?

2. Why do Nancy and C.J. not ask for respirators when they go to visit the monkey house?

3. Why does Gene Johnson supply the team with short-wave radios?

4. How does Nancy Jaax explain her belief that Ebola is airborne?

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

6. When euthanizing a monkey, why is it better to puncture the heart?

7. How is the virus in the monkeys like the Andromeda Strain?

8. Why is there no known video footage of the Reston mission?

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

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

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