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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 does C.J. Peters run into in front of the monkey house?

2. How long does it take for the frying pan treatment to decon the building?

3. What bothers Charlotte Godwin most about the monkey house?

4. What is bacillus subtilis niger?

5. What is the mandate of the CDC?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Nancy Jaax refuse to transport the dead monkeys?

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

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

8. What is ironic about the position that C.J. Peters leaves USAMRIID for?

9. What does Preston carry in his backpack that no one else knows about?

10. Why is USAMRIID upset with what the CDC decides to do with John Coleus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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