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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. What are viruses made of?

2. Who is the first person Dalgard calls after talking to Peter Jahrling?

3. Why can't Nancy work in Level 3?

4. What is a rongeur used for?

5. Why do Charles Monet and his lady friend travel to Kitum Cave?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Nancy Jaax do in Gene Johnson's lab?

4. What are Geisbert's electron microscope photographs definitive proof of?

5. Why can't a monkey be autopsied in front of other monkeys?

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

7. What are the results of the three tests that Jahrling runs on the monkey samples?

8. How does Preston distinguish parasites from predators?

9. Compare Peter Jahrling's and Gene Johnson's offices.

10. Why did Ebola Zaire affect mainly women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of the Rift Valley in the evolution and development of humans? How have environmental changes in this area of the world possibly contributed to the spread of disease? What, if anything, can be done to reverse these trends?

Essay Topic 2

Summarize how USAMRIID organize and execute the biocontainment procedure at Reston.

a. What do they do well?

b. What mistakes are made?

c. Do you agree or disagree with how they handle the media?

Essay Topic 3

Although C.J. Peters and Gene Johnson both work for USAMRIID, they dislike each other. Compare and contrast their characters and explain the genesis of their mutual dislike. How does this contentious relationship affect the biocontainment operation?

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