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

2. Why are the villagers of Kasensero famous?
(a) They are known as smugglers.
(b) Everyone is immune to Marburg virus.
(c) They have many doctors there.
(d) They have found a cure for Ebola.

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

4. Where are Tom Geisbert's children staying?
(a) With his parents.
(b) With a babysitter.
(c) With his estranged wife.
(d) With his sister.

5. Where are the Sese Islands?
(a) In Lake Victoria.
(b) In the Pacific Ocean.
(c) In the Atlantic Ocean.
(d) In the Indian Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the initial outbreak of Ebola Zaire begin?

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

3. Who was the index case of Ebola Sudan?

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

5. What is the fatality rate of Ebola Sudan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is a diamond knife?

8. What is veterinary pathology?

9. Why is Nancy angry with her father?

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

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