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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What illness do the symptoms of the monkeys remind Jerry of?
(a) The flu.
(b) HIV.
(c) Simian hemorrhagic fever.
(d) Rabies.

4. Who does C.J. Peters run into in front of the monkey house?
(a) Someone from the WHO.
(b) A reporter from the Washington Post.
(c) A monkey caretaker who has gotten sick.
(d) Someone from the CDC.

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

6. How much do the 91-Tangos get paid?
(a) Fifty dollars an hour.
(b) Ten dollars an hour.
(c) They work for free.
(d) Seven dollars an hour.

7. Why do the Army, the CDC, and Hazleton decide to let the virus run its course?
(a) Because there haven't been any human casualties.
(b) Because they want to save some of the monkeys.
(c) Because they don't want any more people with space suits in their building.
(d) All answers are correct.

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

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

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

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

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

13. Where does the team of 91-Tangos get dinner?
(a) The CDC caters a meal for them.
(b) Dan Dalgard prepares the meal.
(c) At Taco Bell.
(d) From USAMRIID.

14. What is an "askari"?
(a) A local health official.
(b) A safari guide.
(c) A priest.
(d) An armed guard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the loose monkey bleeding?

2. What is bacillus subtilis niger?

3. What are 91-Tangos?

4. Where did McCormick study human cases of Ebola?

5. Where does C.J. Peters believe that Frantig should be taken for treatment?

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