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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. How many monkeys are still inside the monkey house?

2. What is Robin MacDonald's profession?

3. Where does the CDC recommend that Frantig go to be treated?

4. What does C.J. Peters suggest Nancy do?

5. How does Dalgard instruct his staff they should treat the blood and tissue samples?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When euthanizing a monkey, why is it better to puncture the heart?

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

5. What are the results of Nancy's examination of the monkey's stomach?

6. What did the first radio reports say that frightened lab workers in the monkey house?

7. Why do Nancy and C.J. not ask for respirators when they go to visit the monkey house?

8. Describe the evolution of the "AIDS Highway".

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

10. Even though C.J. Peters has a strong dislike for Joe McCormick, why does he also respect him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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.

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