Download The Hot Zone Reading Guide 5: Pages 211 – 250

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The Hot Zone Reading Guide 5: Pages 211 – 250
1. How does the author help the reader to feel close to Peter Jahrling as he works in the lab? (VOICE)
2. Explain what part of the plot diagram this section of the book covers. [Don’t just give the name of the stage – explain
how this part of the book meets the criteria.] (NARRATIVE)
3. According to Colonel Peters (and the author), there are only three ways to stop the spread of a virus – “vaccines,
drugs, and biocontainment.” (226) But is this true? Can you think of any other possible solutions? (CREATIVITY)
4. Explain the conflict between the Army and the C. D. C. (CONFLICT)
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5. Why does the author include the passage from The Killer Angels on pages 236-237? (AUTHOR’S PURPOSE)
6. On pages 243-244, Gene Johnson muses about the similarity in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and Ebola. What are
the similarities and differences? (ANALYSIS)
7. Given your new understanding of infectious disease, how might communities centuries earlier have created vampire
legends out of plagues? (CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LITERATURE)