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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. About how many cells does each slice of the sample Tom Geisbert makes with the diamond knife contain?
(a) One hundred.
(b) One.
(c) Ten thousand.
(d) About two.

2. What is Tom Geisbert's job at the Institute?
(a) Electron microscope operator.
(b) Security guard.
(c) Director of Veterinary Pathology.
(d) Biochemist.

3. Where had Peter Cardinal and Charles Monet both been before they got sick?
(a) The Kinshasa Highway.
(b) Kitum Cave.
(c) Lake Victoria.
(d) The Nzoia River.

4. What are the classic signs of Ebola in all primates?
(a) Red eyes.
(b) A masklike face.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) A bloody nose.

5. What does it mean to put a sample "in the beam"?
(a) To cut it in half.
(b) To look at it through an electron microscope.
(c) To look at it through a light microscope.
(d) To spin it in a centrifuge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease does Dan Dalgard think the dead monkeys contracted?

2. What is Ebola virus named for?

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

4. Where was the headquarters of Gene Johnson's Kitum Cave expedition?

5. Where are the latest monkeys to die being kept?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is veterinary pathology?

2. Compare Peter Jahrling's and Gene Johnson's offices.

3. Describe "third spacing".

4. What are Geisbert's electron microscope photographs definitive proof of?

5. Why can't a monkey be autopsied in front of other monkeys?

6. What is Nancy Jaax's dilemma as a veterinarian and as a scientist?

7. Describe the typical shapes of viruses and how Marburg compares to them.

8. Why did Ebola Zaire affect mainly women?

9. What is unusual about the house where Nancy Jaax lives?

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

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