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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 are all of the monkeys euthanized?
(a) Room X.
(b) USAMRIID.
(c) Room F.
(d) Room A.

2. What is on the brush Tom Geisbert uses to fish out the sample slices?
(a) A piece of thread.
(b) A human eyelash.
(c) A diamond.
(d) A monkey hair.

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

4. What is in the samples that Dan Dalgard sends to USAMRIID?
(a) A throat wash.
(b) Blood serum.
(c) Bits of monkey spleen.
(d) All answers are correct.

5. Why does Jahrling originally think the samples are NOT Marburg?
(a) The particles are the wrong color.
(b) The particles are too short.
(c) The particles are loops.
(d) The particles appear too long.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are viruses made of?

3. What is Ebola virus named for?

4. What disease did Peter Cardinal die from?

5. What is the Boniface strain a test for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is pseudomonas?

4. Why doesn't Johnson's Kitum Cave expedition study large animals such as leopards or elephants?

5. Why is Dan Dalgard uneasy at the end of Part 2 Chapter 4?

6. What disturbs Dan Dalgard at the end of Part 2, Chapter 2?

7. What is a diamond knife?

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

9. What is veterinary pathology?

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

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