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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are "inclusion bodies"?

2. Who cultures the sample from Monkey 053?

3. How many biocontainment levels are in USAMRIID?

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

5. What did the staff do at the hospital in Maridi that ended the outbreak of Ebola Sudan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Geisbert's electron microscope photographs definitive proof of?

2. What is Nancy Jaax's dilemma as a veterinarian and as a scientist?

3. Describe the typical shapes of viruses and how Marburg compares to them.

4. Why are the workers burning the fields? What impact could this have on the migration of microbes and the biodiversity of an area?

5. Why doesn't Johnson's Kitum Cave expedition study large animals such as leopards or elephants?

6. What are the results of the three tests that Jahrling runs on the monkey samples?

7. Describe what Tom Geisbert sees in his cell samples.

8. What disturbs Dan Dalgard at the end of Part 2, Chapter 2?

9. Why is Nancy angry with her father?

10. What is the difference between an electron and a light microscope?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Preston compares HIV to Ebola throughout the book. Find examples of this comparison in the text and then compare and contrast the two diseases in the following areas:

- Methods of transmission

- How they developed and emerged from the rain forest

- Their fatality and infection rates

Make sure you explain the similarities and differences of each one, and explain how epidemiologists worked to find the origin of each.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the book, different characters must confront the conflict between wanting to keep animals healthy and having to harm animals sometimes in their pursuit of scientific research. Examine at least three examples of this in the text. Describe the situations, and then write about how you would deal with this conflict. Do you think this is ethical behavior? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Read the quote from Killer Angels, Michael Shaara's novel about the Civil War, on pages 237-238 of the Hot Zone:

"To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. This is...a very hard thing to do. No other profession requires it. That is one reason why there are so few very good officers. Although there are many good men."

a. What does the quote say about the difference between soldiers and officers?

b. Why is this quote so significant to Jerry Jaax?

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