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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. Who was Peter Cardinal's doctor at Nairobi Hospital?

2. What are "bricks"?

3. What is the name of the doctor who treats Charles Monet?

4. What major metropolitan area is Reston, VA closest to?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Johnson's Kitum Cave expedition study large animals such as leopards or elephants?

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

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

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

5. What are sentinel animals used for?

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

7. Why are the workers burning the fields? What impact could this have on the migration of microbes and the biodiversity of an area?

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

9. What is pseudomonas?

10. What is unusual about the house where Nancy Jaax lives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Preston compares HIV to Ebola throughout the book. Find examples of this comparison in the text and then compare and contrast the two diseases in the following areas:

- Methods of transmission

- How they developed and emerged from the rain forest

- Their fatality and infection rates

Make sure you explain the similarities and differences of each one, and explain how epidemiologists worked to find the origin of each.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

On page 228, General Russell explains that he wants soldiers with certain qualifications for the biocontainment mission at Reston.

a. What are the qualifications for the soldiers who will be doing the biohazard containment work?

b. Why are those qualifications chosen?

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