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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 1 Highway.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the mandate of the CDC?
(a) To deal with biowarfare threats.
(b) To control disease in animals.
(c) To control human disease.
(d) To publish research papers on unusual diseases.

2. What is the fatality rate of Marburg virus?
(a) One percent.
(b) Twenty five percent.
(c) Ten percent.
(d) Ninety percent.

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

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

5. Why does Jerry not allow Swiderski to go on the mission?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She has never worn a biohazard suit.
(c) She doesn't want to go.
(d) She is only eighteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean to put a sample "in the beam"?

2. What other disease does Peters suggest Jahrling test the sample for?

3. How many bags of monkeys are given to the team from USAMRIID?

4. What is in the samples that Dan Dalgard sends to USAMRIID?

5. What are "bricks"?

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