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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to one of the animal caretakers in the monkey house?
(a) He has died.
(b) He has had a heart attack.
(c) He has crashed and bled out.
(d) He has quit his job.

2. What percentage of men and women of child-bearing age who live around Mt. Elgon are thought to be HIV-positive?
(a) Five percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Thirty percent.
(d) Ninety percent.

3. What does McCormick observe in the Ebola victims in the Zande village?
(a) Red eyes.
(b) Convulsions.
(c) Hemorrhages.
(d) All answers are correct.

4. What does the monkey's spleen look like?
(a) It is leathery.
(b) It is puffed up.
(c) It is tough.
(d) All answers are correct.

5. What is located behind the monkey house?
(a) A television news station.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A day care center.
(d) A high school.

6. Where does C.J. Peters believe that Frantig should be taken for treatment?
(a) A local hospital.
(b) In the monkey house.
(c) CDC headquarters.
(d) The Slammer.

7. Why is the road to Mt. Elgon so familiar to the author?
(a) Gene Johnson had given him a vivid image of the area.
(b) He lived in Africa for a time as a child.
(c) He had traveled there a lot in his work.
(d) He saw many photographs of the area during his research.

8. How many other people are traveling with Preston?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Nine.
(d) Fifteen.

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

10. Who is the person who first photographed the Ebola virus?
(a) Gene Johnson.
(b) Nancy Jaax.
(c) Tom Geisbert.
(d) Frederick Murphy.

11. What is another name for the biocontainment pod?
(a) A refrigerator truck.
(b) Ambulance.
(c) A bubble stretcher.
(d) Portable slammer.

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

13. Why does Jerry not allow Swiderski to go on the mission?
(a) She has never worn a biohazard suit.
(b) She doesn't want to go.
(c) She is only eighteen.
(d) She is pregnant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nancy's brother call?

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

3. What substance does Preston bring with him to help disinfect anything he might contaminate?

4. How many bags of monkeys are given to the team from USAMRIID?

5. Where does Dalgard agree to deliver monkey samples to the team from USAMRIID?

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