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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Dan Dalgard spend Thanksgiving?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Washington DC.
(c) Florida.
(d) Pittsburgh.

2. What is the name of the doctor who treats Charles Monet?
(a) Johnnie.
(b) Nancy Jaax.
(c) Peter Cardinal.
(d) Shem Musoke.

3. What did Peter Jahrling ultimately realize had infected the monkeys?
(a) HIV.
(b) Ebola Zaire.
(c) Simian hemorrhagic fever.
(d) Marburg.

4. Who is another prime candidate that the scientists fear might break with Marburg?
(a) Jerry Jaax.
(b) Gene Johnson.
(c) Dan Dalgard.
(d) Nancy Jaax.

5. What does Tom Geisbert think has infected his cells after looking at them through the electron microscope?
(a) Simian hemorrhagic fever.
(b) Pseudomonas.
(c) Marburg.
(d) Ebola.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fatality rate of Ebola Sudan?

2. Who is the first person Dalgard calls after talking to Peter Jahrling?

3. What is listed as Charles Monet's official cause of death?

4. Who is the strain of Ebola Zaire in the U.S. Army's freezers named after?

5. Who is the colony manger at the Reston Monkey House?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is pseudomonas?

2. Explain how viruses are both considered "alive" and "dead".

3. Why is it not in the best interest of a virus to kill its host?

4. Describe the behavior of the weaverbirds on page 5. What about their behavior would make them interesting to an epidemiologist?

5. How does the mixing of monkey species relate to the idea of HIV's origin?

6. What are the results of the three tests that Jahrling runs on the monkey samples?

7. What are sentinel animals used for?

8. How does Preston distinguish parasites from predators?

9. Describe what Tom Geisbert sees in his cell samples.

10. Why are crab-eating macaques described as "competitors" of humans in their natural environment?

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