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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 is the mandate of the CDC?
(a) To publish research papers on unusual diseases.
(b) To control disease in animals.
(c) To control human disease.
(d) To deal with biowarfare threats.

2. Where does Dalgard agree to deliver monkey samples to the team from USAMRIID?
(a) At a gas station.
(b) At Hazleton main offices.
(c) At USAMRIID.
(d) At the monkey house.

3. What do the Hazleton employees do with the dead monkeys?
(a) Send them to the CDC to be destroyed.
(b) Bury them in a company plot.
(c) Incinerate them.
(d) Send them to USAMRIID to be destroyed.

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

5. How long does the CDC test for Ebola take according to McCormick?
(a) One week.
(b) Thirty days.
(c) Twelve hours.
(d) Twenty-four hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MacDonald say is missing in the forests of Mount Elgon?

2. What is Ian Redmond's theory about Kitum Cave?

3. Where did McCormick study human cases of Ebola?

4. How has the area around Mt. Elgon changed since McDonald was a boy?

5. How are the trunks of Gene Johnson's gear transported to Reston?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nancy Jaax explain her belief that Ebola is airborne?

2. Why can't a security card be brought into the higher levels of a biosafety lab?

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

4. Why does the team from USAMRIID decide to wear civilian clothes?

5. Why is USAMRIID upset with what the CDC decides to do with John Coleus?

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

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

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

9. What is the memory that Nancy has of her father and her childhood?

10. What are Dan Dalgard's recommendations for work in the monkey house?

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