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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. How much do the 91-Tangos get paid?

2. What paper is the newspaper article about the mission printed in?

3. Where did McCormick study human cases of Ebola?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Joe McCormick critical of the way USAMRIID had handled Ebola research in the past?

4. What does Preston carry in his backpack that no one else knows about?

5. What did the first radio reports say that frightened lab workers in the monkey house?

6. What are Dan Dalgard's recommendations for work in the monkey house?

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

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

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

10. Why does Nancy Jaax refuse to transport the dead monkeys?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Preston brings up the possibility of future outbreaks of Ebola or other diseases. Based on the information given in the text, answer the following questions:

a. How likely is a future outbreak of Ebola or a similar virus?

b. What are some likely causes of this outbreak?

c. Based on what has been learned in the text, what would be the best course of action to deal with such an outbreak if it occurred?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

A quote from the book reads: "a virus can be useful to a species by thinning it out." Students will research the historic outbreaks of plague in the 14th century and the flu outbreak of 1918. How did this concept of "herd immunity" allow the outbreaks to finally end? Do students agree that a virus can be considered "useful"? Why or why not?

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