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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the villagers of Kasensero famous?

2. What is the Boniface strain a test for?

3. What does it mean to put a sample "in the beam"?

4. Where had Peter Cardinal and Charles Monet both been before they got sick?

5. What state is Nancy Jaax from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nancy Jaax's hobby help her confidence?

2. Why did Ebola Zaire affect mainly women?

3. Describe the typical shapes of viruses and how Marburg compares to them.

4. What is the difference between an electron and a light microscope?

5. Explain how viruses are both considered "alive" and "dead".

6. Describe what Tom Geisbert sees in his cell samples.

7. Why is Nancy angry with her father?

8. What is veterinary pathology?

9. What irritates and concerns Peter Jahrling about the samples that Dan Dalgard sends him?

10. Describe "third spacing".

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how iatrogenesis works.

a. Describe two examples of iatrogenesis that you have read about in the Hot Zone.

b. How could these examples have been prevented?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the book, different characters must confront the conflict between wanting to keep animals healthy and having to harm animals sometimes in their pursuit of scientific research. Examine at least three examples of this in the text. Describe the situations, and then write about how you would deal with this conflict. Do you think this is ethical behavior? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Summarize the reasons and the process that Peter Jahrling and Tom Geisbert used to reach their decision NOT to tell about their possible exposure after the "whiffing incident". Do you agree with the decision they made?

- What were their considerations about the incubation period?

- What do Jahrling and Geisbert know about the Slammer that affected their decision?

- Why doesn't Jahrling think he is putting his family at risk?

- How did the right to name a new virus affect their decision?

- Based on what you know about the fatality rate of Marburg and other filoviruses, do you think that Jahrling and Geisbert made a good decision? Why or why not?

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