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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 is the commander of USAMRIID?

2. What is Robin MacDonald's profession?

3. Who is the commander of the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command?

4. What does McCormick observe in the Ebola victims in the Zande village?

5. Why is McCormick afraid he has been infected?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What are the three methods of stopping a virus?

7. Why does the Kenyan government require that all visitors to Mount Elgon have an armed guard?

8. What are the three priorities that Jerry Jaax and Gene Johnson set for the mission?

9. Why is Joe McCormick critical of the way USAMRIID had handled Ebola research in the past?

10. Why do the remaining monkey workers leave the monkey house for good?

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

Compare and contrast the characters of Charles Monet, Peter Cardinal, Mr. Yu G., and P.G. What is similar in their characters and what is different? How do these similarities and differences affect their fates? How does it affect how they become infected in the first place? Explain why you think Preston chose each of these characters for case studies in the book.

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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