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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where did the Jaaxes spend Thanksgiving?
(a) USAMRIID.
(b) Florida.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Kansas.
2. Which fort are Nancy and Jerry Jaax assigned to in the Army?
(a) Fort LeBoeuf.
(b) Fort Bragg.
(c) Fort Detrick.
(d) Fort Dix.
3. What is a nickname for crab-eating monkeys?
(a) Medical monkeys.
(b) Fish monkeys.
(c) Weaver monkeys.
(d) Kras.
4. What does the word "filovirus" mean in Latin?
(a) Deadly virus.
(b) Thread virus.
(c) Ring virus.
(d) Harmless virus.
5. What does it mean to put a sample "in the beam"?
(a) To look at it through an electron microscope.
(b) To spin it in a centrifuge.
(c) To cut it in half.
(d) To look at it through a light microscope.
6. Why do elephants travel into Kitum Cave?
(a) To have their babies.
(b) To escape poachers.
(c) To find water.
(d) To get salt.
7. Where does Dr. David Silverstein live?
(a) Reston, Virginia.
(b) Kinshasa.
(c) Nairobi.
(d) Marburg, Germany.
8. What is the characteristic smell of pseudomonas?
(a) Grape juice.
(b) Freshly cut grass.
(c) Yeast.
(d) Stagnant water.
9. What did Peter Jahrling ultimately realize had infected the monkeys?
(a) Marburg.
(b) Ebola Zaire.
(c) HIV.
(d) Simian hemorrhagic fever.
10. Who is the colony manger at the Reston Monkey House?
(a) Bill Volt.
(b) Dan Dalgard.
(c) Shem Musoke.
(d) Jerry Jaax.
11. Where is Charles Monet originally from?
(a) Spain.
(b) South Africa.
(c) The United States.
(d) France.
12. What major metropolitan area is Reston, VA closest to?
(a) Washington, DC.
(b) Richmond, VA.
(c) Raleigh, NC.
(d) Baltimore, MD.
13. What are "inclusion bodies"?
(a) Cell nucleoids.
(b) Proteins.
(c) Crystal-like blocks of pure virus.
(d) Cracks in the cell.
14. What are "bricks"?
(a) Crystalloids of virus ready to hatch.
(b) Cracks in the cell.
(c) Cell nucleoids.
(d) Proteins.
15. What is the "first line of defense" against a hot agent?
(a) A vaccine.
(b) Bleach.
(c) Sticky tape.
(d) Water.
Short Answer Questions
1. What color is a Racal suit?
2. What is the fatality rate of Ebola Sudan?
3. Who is the strain of Ebola Zaire in the U.S. Army's freezers named after?
4. What pet lives with Nancy and her family?
5. What is the first symptom after being exposed to a filovirus?
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