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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 does Frantig's condition make Dalgard decide to do?

2. What paper is the newspaper article about the mission printed in?

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

4. What is Milton Frantig's diagnosis?

5. What is located behind the monkey house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the memory that Nancy has of her father and her childhood?

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

4. Why is there no known video footage of the Reston mission?

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

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

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

8. What are three reasons that Jerry chooses Captain Mark Haines to enter the building first with him?

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Many emerging viruses come from Africa, and have affected Africans for centuries. Still, they were not officially identified until Americans or Europeans were affected by them.

a. Why do you think this is?

b. Explain at least two examples of this from the book.

c. Do you think this will help or hinder the search for the natural host of Ebola?

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