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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. Why do Charles Monet and his lady friend travel to Kitum Cave?
(a) It is a business trip.
(b) In order to get married.
(c) They are running from the law.
(d) For New Year's.

2. What does Tom Geisbert realize the "pepper" is that he sees in the cells?
(a) Pseudomonas.
(b) Bits of hair.
(c) Dust.
(d) Inclusion bodies.

3. Who is the first person Dalgard calls after talking to Peter Jahrling?
(a) Tom Geisbert.
(b) C.J. Peters.
(c) Bill Volt.
(d) Nancy Jaax.

4. What is the fatality rate of Ebola virus?
(a) Ten percent.
(b) Ninety percent.
(c) Twenty five percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the first identified victims of Marburg virus work?

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

3. Why can't Nancy work in Level 3?

4. Who was the index case of Ebola Sudan?

5. Where does Dan Dalgard spend Thanksgiving?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a diamond knife?

2. What is the military and political crisis that Peters worries about?

3. Why is Nancy angry with her father?

4. What irritates and concerns Peter Jahrling about the samples that Dan Dalgard sends him?

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

6. What is pseudomonas?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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