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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. How many other people are traveling with Preston?
(a) Five.
(b) Nine.
(c) Two.
(d) Fifteen.

2. During the second Reston outbreak, what does the CDC do?
(a) Require all monkey workers to get tested for Ebola.
(b) Effectively stop most monkey importation into the U.S. for several months.
(c) Close all labs using monkeys for research.
(d) Ban people from traveling to areas with Ebola outbreaks.

3. What do USAMRIID scientists eventually conclude about Ebola?
(a) It will never infect humans again.
(b) It has mutated to only infect humans.
(c) It cannot spread through the air.
(d) It can spread through the air.

4. What is located behind the monkey house?
(a) A day care center.
(b) A television news station.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A high school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Nancy Jaax, Peters, and Gene Johnson travel to meet Dan Dalgard?

2. In Rhonda's dream, what is the monkey holding in its hand?

3. Who was Nancy Jaax's collaborator in her experiments to see if Ebola was airborne?

4. Why does Jerry not allow Swiderski to go on the mission?

5. What is another name for the biocontainment pod?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Preston carry in his backpack that no one else knows about?

2. What is the compromise that the CDC and USAMRIID come up with?

3. Why does Gene Johnson supply the team with short-wave radios?

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

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

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

7. Describe the evolution of the "AIDS Highway".

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

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

10. Why doesn't Jerry like the idea of shooting the loose monkey?

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