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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 is one of the nicknames of USAMRIID?

2. Who picked up the sample of Peter Cardinal's blood in Washington, DC?

3. What is a "hatbox"?

4. How big is a typical virus flask?

5. What do the initials USAMRIID stand for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a diamond knife?

2. What is the military and political crisis that Peters worries about?

3. What is Nancy Jaax's dilemma as a veterinarian and as a scientist?

4. What is pseudomonas?

5. Why is Dan Dalgard uneasy at the end of Part 2 Chapter 4?

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

7. Describe the behavior of the weaverbirds on page 5. What about their behavior would make them interesting to an epidemiologist?

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

9. Why is it not in the best interest of a virus to kill its host?

10. What is veterinary pathology?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Nairobi Hospital where Monet crashed and bled out. Compare and contrast it with hospitals in the United States. What does this tell you about the difference between health care in the United States and in less-developed countries?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

A quote from the book reads: "a virus can be useful to a species by thinning it out." Students will research the historic outbreaks of plague in the 14th century and the flu outbreak of 1918. How did this concept of "herd immunity" allow the outbreaks to finally end? Do students agree that a virus can be considered "useful"? Why or why not?

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