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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Robin MacDonald's profession?
(a) He is an epidemiologist.
(b) He is a veterinarian.
(c) He is a medical doctor.
(d) He is a hunter and safari guide.

2. Where do monkeys tend to aim when they spit at you?
(a) Your feet.
(b) Your face.
(c) Your hands.
(d) Your back.

3. What do the frying pans release into the air?
(a) An experimental vaccine.
(b) Formaldehyde gas.
(c) Bleach.
(d) Bacillus subtilis niger.

4. About how many elephants make up the Mount Elgon herd?
(a) Ten.
(b) Seventy.
(c) One thousand.
(d) Two hundred.

5. What infectious virus has Peters studied in Bolivia?
(a) Ebola.
(b) Machupo.
(c) Marburg.
(d) Smallpox.

6. Who is the commander of USAMRIID?
(a) Philip K. Russell.
(b) Jerry Jaax.
(c) C.J. Peters.
(d) David Huxsoll.

7. Why does Nancy's brother call?
(a) To tell her not to wear a space suit any more.
(b) To ask for money.
(c) To tell her that her father is dying.
(d) To tell her that he is moving to Reston.

8. What do USAMRIID scientists eventually conclude about Ebola?
(a) It has mutated to only infect humans.
(b) It cannot spread through the air.
(c) It can spread through the air.
(d) It will never infect humans again.

9. What does Jerry tell Nancy about his day?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) No one had stuck themselves with a needle.
(c) It had gone well.
(d) It was lonely.

10. What do the eyes of the monkey that Nancy is cutting open look like?
(a) They are normal.
(b) They have unusually dilated pupils.
(c) They are yellow.
(d) They are red.

11. How long does it take for the frying pan treatment to decon the building?
(a) Three days.
(b) Twenty-four hours.
(c) One month,
(d) One week.

12. What do all four monkey caretakers in the monkey house have in common?
(a) All show symptoms of having Ebola.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) All eventually test positive for Ebola Reston.
(d) All eventually contract another fatal virus.

13. How are hot agents in the air lock eliminated?
(a) By flushing the room with fresh air.
(b) By running a decon cycle.
(c) They cannot be eliminated.
(d) By washing the room with Envirochem.

14. When would the reconnaissance mission begin?
(a) 1030 hours.
(b) Noon.
(c) 0500 hours.
(d) Midnight.

15. Dalgard is worried that whom may have been exposed to the hot agent in the monkey house?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Employees from the laundry service.
(c) Workers on the air handling system.
(d) A telephone repairman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to one of the animal caretakers in the monkey house?

2. What is the fatality rate of Ebola Reston among the monkeys?

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

4. What must all of the animal caretakers at the monkey house now wear?

5. What is another name for the biocontainment pod?

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