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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is another prime candidate that the scientists fear might break with Marburg?
(a) Nancy Jaax.
(b) Gene Johnson.
(c) Jerry Jaax.
(d) Dan Dalgard.

2. What are "bricks"?
(a) Proteins.
(b) Cracks in the cell.
(c) Cell nucleoids.
(d) Crystalloids of virus ready to hatch.

3. What is on the brush Tom Geisbert uses to fish out the sample slices?
(a) A human eyelash.
(b) A diamond.
(c) A monkey hair.
(d) A piece of thread.

4. What is Colonel C.J. Peters' official title at USAMRIID?
(a) Chief of pathology.
(b) Chief of virology.
(c) Chief of the disease-assessment division.
(d) Chief of disease containment.

5. Where does Dr. David Silverstein live?
(a) Kinshasa.
(b) Nairobi.
(c) Marburg, Germany.
(d) Reston, Virginia.

6. What is wrong with Nancy's father?
(a) His house has been burned down in a fire.
(b) He is dying of cancer.
(c) He has been laid off from his job.
(d) He just lost his wife.

7. Where had Peter Cardinal and Charles Monet both been before they got sick?
(a) Kitum Cave.
(b) The Nzoia River.
(c) The Kinshasa Highway.
(d) Lake Victoria.

8. What kind of animal lived on the roof of Peter Cardinal's house?
(a) A weaverbird.
(b) A monkey.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A rock hyrax.

9. What disease does Dan Dalgard think the dead monkeys contracted?
(a) Ebola.
(b) Simian hemorrhagic fever.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Malaria.

10. What are "inclusion bodies"?
(a) Cell nucleoids.
(b) Crystal-like blocks of pure virus.
(c) Cracks in the cell.
(d) Proteins.

11. Who did Peter Cardinal spend most of his time with while he was on vacation?
(a) Charles Monet.
(b) His nanny.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.

12. What does Tom Geisbert think has infected his cells after looking at them through the electron microscope?
(a) Marburg.
(b) Simian hemorrhagic fever.
(c) Ebola.
(d) Pseudomonas.

13. About how many cells does each slice of the sample Tom Geisbert makes with the diamond knife contain?
(a) Ten thousand.
(b) One hundred.
(c) About two.
(d) One.

14. What does Tom Geisbert realize the "pepper" is that he sees in the cells?
(a) Dust.
(b) Inclusion bodies.
(c) Bits of hair.
(d) Pseudomonas.

15. Where did the Jaaxes spend Thanksgiving?
(a) Florida.
(b) USAMRIID.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ebola virus named for?

2. What is Tom Geisbert's job at the Institute?

3. Why can't Nancy work in Level 3?

4. What disease did Peter Cardinal die from?

5. What do the initials USAMRIID stand for?

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