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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who decides he is not going to go inside the monkey house because he cannot bear to see monkeys die?
(a) Dan Dalgard.
(b) Jerry Jaax.
(c) Gene Johnson.
(d) Bill Volt.

3. What is found in the woods behind the monkey house?
(a) Vials of blood.
(b) A bag of biohazard materials.
(c) A dead monkey.
(d) Used hypodermic needles.

4. What are all laboratory beakers in a hot zone made of?
(a) Silicone.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Glass.
(d) Chemturion.

5. Why is McCormick afraid he has been infected?
(a) He breathed the same air as the Ebola patients.
(b) He shared food with the patients.
(c) He stabbed himself with a needle used on an infected woman.
(d) He prepared the dead bodies for burial.

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

7. How has the area around Mt. Elgon changed since McDonald was a boy?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Travel took a lot longer.
(c) There wasn't corn everywhere.
(d) The land was all forest and grassland.

8. What do the Hazleton employees do with the dead monkeys?
(a) Send them to the CDC to be destroyed.
(b) Bury them in a company plot.
(c) Incinerate them.
(d) Send them to USAMRIID to be destroyed.

9. Who was Nancy Jaax's collaborator in her experiments to see if Ebola was airborne?
(a) C.J. Peters.
(b) Gene Johnson.
(c) Peter Jahrling.
(d) Philip K. Russell.

10. What paper is the newspaper article about the mission printed in?
(a) USA Today.
(b) The Reston Connection.
(c) The Washington Post.
(d) The New York Times.

11. What did Bill Volt offer to Gene Johnson and Sergeant Klages when they visited on their reconnaissance mission that bothered the two men?
(a) Respirators.
(b) Space suits.
(c) Candy.
(d) Vaccines.

12. During the second Reston outbreak, what does the CDC do?
(a) Close all labs using monkeys for research.
(b) Effectively stop most monkey importation into the U.S. for several months.
(c) Require all monkey workers to get tested for Ebola.
(d) Ban people from traveling to areas with Ebola outbreaks.

13. What is Hazleton policy on when to change needles?
(a) After every injection.
(b) After every two injections.
(c) There is no policy.
(d) After every five injections.

14. How many bags of monkeys are given to the team from USAMRIID?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Seven.
(d) Twenty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness do the symptoms of the monkeys remind Jerry of?

2. What happens to Rhonda Williams in Part 2, Chapter 4?

3. What does Rhonda Williams not like about working on the "bleed table"?

4. Where does the CDC recommend that Frantig go to be treated?

5. In Rhonda's dream, what is the monkey holding in its hand?

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