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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. Who decides he is not going to go inside the monkey house because he cannot bear to see monkeys die?
(a) Dan Dalgard.
(b) Gene Johnson.
(c) Bill Volt.
(d) Jerry Jaax.

2. Where has the gear and equipment used for the Reston mission been used before?
(a) Kitum Cave.
(b) A monkey house in Pennsylvania.
(c) In Sudan.
(d) At the CDC.

3. Why is McCormick afraid he has been infected?
(a) He breathed the same air as the Ebola patients.
(b) He shared food with the patients.
(c) He stabbed himself with a needle used on an infected woman.
(d) He prepared the dead bodies for burial.

4. Why does Jerry not allow Swiderski to go on the mission?
(a) She has never worn a biohazard suit.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is only eighteen.
(d) She doesn't want to go.

5. What does the monkey's intestine look like?
(a) It is full of blood.
(b) It has hemorrhaged.
(c) It is torn.
(d) It is normal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to Jerry after his first day in the monkey house?

2. What is the name of the rapid Ebola test developed by the Army?

3. Who follows the ambulance that leaves the monkey house?

4. Where does Dalgard agree to deliver monkey samples to the team from USAMRIID?

5. What is Joe McCormick's title?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Preston characterize the emergence of HIV as "subtle"?

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

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

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

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

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