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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. Who cultures the sample from Monkey 053?
(a) Joan Rhoderick.
(b) Tom Geisbert.
(c) Jerry Jaax.
(d) Nancy Jaax.

2. What is one of the nicknames of USAMRIID?
(a) The Maze.
(b) The Department.
(c) The Fort.
(d) The Institute.

3. What is a rongeur used for?
(a) To euthanize monkeys.
(b) To disinfect a person's hand.
(c) To open skulls.
(d) To sterilize needles.

4. Where are most of the monkeys who die located?
(a) Room 6B.
(b) Room 21.
(c) Room F.
(d) Room A.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Peter Cardinal and Charles Monet both been before they got sick?

2. How many new monkeys die at the monkey house over Thanksgiving?

3. What is on Peter Jahrling's license plate?

4. Why did Peter Cardinal want to go to Kitum Cave?

5. What is wrong with Nancy's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the workers burning the fields? What impact could this have on the migration of microbes and the biodiversity of an area?

2. How does Preston distinguish parasites from predators?

3. Why did Ebola Zaire affect mainly women?

4. Describe "third spacing".

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

6. What is a diamond knife?

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

8. What does Nancy Jaax do in Gene Johnson's lab?

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

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

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