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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Finish this sentence: At the end of the decon process, the monkey house was the only place on earth where: ___________________________.
(a) Ebola had mutated to only be infectious to animals.
(b) Ebola could infect humans.
(c) Nothing at all lived.
(d) Bacillus subtilis niger lived.

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

5. Where has the gear and equipment used for the Reston mission been used before?
(a) In Sudan.
(b) Kitum Cave.
(c) At the CDC.
(d) A monkey house in Pennsylvania.

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

7. What substance does Preston bring with him to help disinfect anything he might contaminate?
(a) Detergent.
(b) Envirochem.
(c) A vial of an experimental vaccine.
(d) Bleach.

8. What is Ian Redmond's theory about Kitum Cave?
(a) That it is the birthplace of HIV.
(b) That it was carved by elephants.
(c) That it no longer holds any infectious viruses.
(d) That it will eventually collapse.

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

10. What happens in the monkey house a month after the building was deconned?
(a) More monkeys begin dying of Ebola.
(b) A new strain of Marburg emerges.
(c) A caretaker crashes and bleeds out.
(d) Bill Volt fires all of the employees.

11. How are the trunks of Gene Johnson's gear transported to Reston?
(a) In an unmarked white van.
(b) In a yellow school bus.
(c) In an Army trunk.
(d) In Gene's car.

12. Who becomes the designated team leader for USAMRIID's biohazard mission into the monkey house?
(a) Tom Geisbert.
(b) C.J. Peters.
(c) Gene Johnson.
(d) Nancy Jaax.

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

14. What is the name of the rapid Ebola test developed by the Army?
(a) Tango test.
(b) T-61 test.
(c) Elisa test.
(d) Ksiazek test.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many monkeys are still inside the monkey house?

2. Where did McCormick study human cases of Ebola?

3. What does C.J. Peters suggest Nancy do?

4. Why do the Army, the CDC, and Hazleton decide to let the virus run its course?

5. How has the area around Mt. Elgon changed since McDonald was a boy?

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