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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the first person Dalgard calls after talking to Peter Jahrling?
(a) Tom Geisbert.
(b) C.J. Peters.
(c) Bill Volt.
(d) Nancy Jaax.

2. What are the classic signs of Ebola in all primates?
(a) A masklike face.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Red eyes.
(d) A bloody nose.

3. What does it mean to put a sample "in the beam"?
(a) To cut it in half.
(b) To look at it through a light microscope.
(c) To look at it through an electron microscope.
(d) To spin it in a centrifuge.

4. What is Peter Jahrling's tentative diagnosis of what is happening to the monkeys?
(a) Marburg.
(b) Heat stroke.
(c) Simian hemorrhagic fever.
(d) Ebola.

5. Why did Peter Cardinal want to go to Kitum Cave?
(a) To photograph elephants.
(b) To see bats.
(c) To practice his caving skills.
(d) To collect crystals.

6. What is Ebola virus named for?
(a) The Ebola River.
(b) The Ebola Institute, where it was identified.
(c) Dr. Ebola, the person who first isolated it.
(d) John Ebola, the index case.

7. Why does Jahrling originally think the samples are NOT Marburg?
(a) The particles are too short.
(b) The particles are the wrong color.
(c) The particles are loops.
(d) The particles appear too long.

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

9. What is the characteristic smell of pseudomonas?
(a) Freshly cut grass.
(b) Grape juice.
(c) Yeast.
(d) Stagnant water.

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

11. Who picked up the sample of Peter Cardinal's blood in Washington, DC?
(a) Nancy Jaax.
(b) Tony Johnson.
(c) Jerry Jaax.
(d) Eugene Johnson.

12. Who was Peter Cardinal's doctor at Nairobi Hospital?
(a) Dr. David Silverstein.
(b) Dr. Shem Musoke.
(c) Dr. Nancy Jaax.
(d) Dr. Antonia Bagshawe.

13. What is in the samples that Dan Dalgard sends to USAMRIID?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Bits of monkey spleen.
(c) Blood serum.
(d) A throat wash.

14. How many monkeys are imported into the United States each year for medical research?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Sixteen thousand.
(c) Twenty five hundred.
(d) One million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Peter Cardinal spend most of his time with while he was on vacation?

2. What kind of animal lived on the roof of Peter Cardinal's house?

3. How many new monkeys die at the monkey house over Thanksgiving?

4. How big is a typical virus flask?

5. What does Jahrling tell Dalgard is "definitely" present in the monkey house?

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