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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. What do the initials USAMRIID stand for?
(a) United States of America Reconnaissance and Investigation of Infection and Disease.
(b) United States Army Major Research and Investigation Division.
(c) United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
(d) United States of America Medical Research and Investigative Department.

2. What are "inclusion bodies"?
(a) Cracks in the cell.
(b) Proteins.
(c) Cell nucleoids.
(d) Crystal-like blocks of pure virus.

3. What major metropolitan area is Reston, VA closest to?
(a) Washington, DC.
(b) Richmond, VA.
(c) Baltimore, MD.
(d) Raleigh, NC.

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

5. What state is Nancy Jaax from?
(a) California.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Utah.
(d) Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is a Racal suit?

2. What are "bricks"?

3. Who did Peter Cardinal spend most of his time with while he was on vacation?

4. How many monkeys are imported into the United States each year for medical research?

5. What is the fatality rate of Ebola Sudan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the difference between an electron and a light microscope?

7. What is veterinary pathology?

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

9. Why is Nancy angry with her father?

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

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