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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 happens in the monkey house a month after the building was deconned?
(a) Bill Volt fires all of the employees.
(b) A new strain of Marburg emerges.
(c) A caretaker crashes and bleeds out.
(d) More monkeys begin dying of Ebola.

2. About how many elephants make up the Mount Elgon herd?
(a) Ten.
(b) Two hundred.
(c) Seventy.
(d) One thousand.

3. What paper is the newspaper article about the mission printed in?
(a) The Reston Connection.
(b) The Washington Post.
(c) USA Today.
(d) The New York Times.

4. How much do the 91-Tangos get paid?
(a) Fifty dollars an hour.
(b) Ten dollars an hour.
(c) They work for free.
(d) Seven dollars an hour.

5. Who follows the ambulance that leaves the monkey house?
(a) The news media.
(b) Officials from the CDC.
(c) Jerry and Nancy Jaax.
(d) Officials from USAMRIID.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerry tell Nancy about his day?

2. What is found in the woods behind the monkey house?

3. Who does C.J. Peters select to lead the mission into the monkey house?

4. What has happened to one of the animal caretakers in the monkey house?

5. Where do monkeys tend to aim when they spit at you?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Joe McCormick critical of the way USAMRIID had handled Ebola research in the past?

2. How is the virus in the monkeys like the Andromeda Strain?

3. Describe the close calls that Gene Johnson has had with Level 4 hot agents.

4. What are the three priorities that Jerry Jaax and Gene Johnson set for the mission?

5. What is the Army's policy about hazard pay for biohazard work?

6. When euthanizing a monkey, why is it better to puncture the heart?

7. Why does Nancy Jaax refuse to transport the dead monkeys?

8. What are the results of Nancy's examination of the monkey's stomach?

9. Why do Nancy and C.J. not ask for respirators when they go to visit the monkey house?

10. Why does Peters select Jerry Jaax to lead the mission into the monkey house?

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