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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fatality rate of Ebola Reston among the monkeys?
(a) About ten percent.
(b) About two percent.
(c) About eighty percent.
(d) About fifty percent.

2. What are 91-Tangos?
(a) Part-time Hazleton employees.
(b) Army animal-care technicians.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Biohazard specialists.

3. Where did McCormick study human cases of Ebola?
(a) Zaire.
(b) Kenya.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Sudan.

4. 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.

5. How does Dalgard instruct his staff they should treat the blood and tissue samples?
(a) Without any special precautions.
(b) As if they were infected with bacteria.
(c) As if they were a deadly Level 4 hot virus.
(d) As if they were HIV.

6. What does Frantig's condition make Dalgard decide to do?
(a) Hand over the mission to the CDC.
(b) Call off the biocontainment mission.
(c) Evacuate the building of the monkey workers.
(d) Quit his job.

7. 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.

8. What happens to Rhonda Williams in Part 2, Chapter 4?
(a) She got stuck with a needle.
(b) She passes out.
(c) She lost her gloves.
(d) The battery for the blower on her suit cut off.

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

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

11. Who follows the ambulance that leaves the monkey house?
(a) Jerry and Nancy Jaax.
(b) Officials from the CDC.
(c) Officials from USAMRIID.
(d) The news media.

12. What is the mandate of the CDC?
(a) To publish research papers on unusual diseases.
(b) To control disease in animals.
(c) To deal with biowarfare threats.
(d) To control human disease.

13. Where does the group stop for beer and charcoal?
(a) Kisumu.
(b) Nzara.
(c) Kasensero.
(d) Kitale.

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

15. What must all of the animal caretakers at the monkey house now wear?
(a) Chemturion suits.
(b) Respirators.
(c) Racal suits.
(d) Surgical scrubs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Nancy's buddy in the Level 4 lab?

2. Dalgard is worried that whom may have been exposed to the hot agent in the monkey house?

3. What are all laboratory beakers in a hot zone made of?

4. What room does Dalgard give the Army permission to enter and euthanize the monkeys?

5. How many workers are employed in the building during the mission?

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