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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 Ian Redmond's theory about Kitum Cave?
(a) That it will eventually collapse.
(b) That it is the birthplace of HIV.
(c) That it no longer holds any infectious viruses.
(d) That it was carved by elephants.

2. Finish this sentence: At the end of the decon process, the monkey house was the only place on earth where: ___________________________.
(a) Ebola could infect humans.
(b) Bacillus subtilis niger lived.
(c) Nothing at all lived.
(d) Ebola had mutated to only be infectious to animals.

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

4. What is the fatality rate of Ebola Reston among the monkeys?
(a) About ten percent.
(b) About eighty percent.
(c) About fifty percent.
(d) About two percent.

5. What do the frying pans release into the air?
(a) Bleach.
(b) Bacillus subtilis niger.
(c) Formaldehyde gas.
(d) An experimental vaccine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rhonda Williams not like about working on the "bleed table"?

2. What is Joe McCormick's title?

3. What paper is the newspaper article about the mission printed in?

4. Who decons out with Rhonda?

5. Who decides he is not going to go inside the monkey house because he cannot bear to see monkeys die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are three reasons that Jerry chooses Captain Mark Haines to enter the building first with him?

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

3. Why do the remaining monkey workers leave the monkey house for good?

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

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

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

7. Why is there no known video footage of the Reston mission?

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

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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