CBRN Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers

CBRN Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers The lone individual - Answer-1. Most difficult to apprehend 2. Striking without a predictable motive or pattern 3. Least successful Local terrorist groups and non-aligned groups - Answer-1. Form a larger threat of domestic CBRN terrorism 2. Difference between the cause, the home base, and the source of their funding 3. Members fit into the local society and are often unnoticed until they strike International terrorist groups - Answer-1. Biggest threat 2. Better financed, equipped, and trained Doomsday cults - Answer-1. Groups focus on apocalyptic events 2. Some are prepared to use violence in an effort to trigger the apocalypse 3. Others encourage or force followers to commit suicide Insurgents - Answer-1. Are in opposition to a civil authority or government 2. may be a member of an irregular armed force 3. Capable of blending in Why terrorists use CBRN - Answer-1. available and relatively easy to manufacture 2. Large amount needed in enclosed space 3. CBRN incident difficult to recognize 4. Easily spread over large areas 5. Psychological impact 6. Can overwhelm existing resources Possible Terrorists Methods of Dissemination - Answer-1. Contamination of food or liquids 2. Dispersal as vapor or aerosol 3. Transmission indirectly through infected animals or inanimate materials 4. Direct human contact CBRNE routes of entry - Answer-1. Inhalation 2. Ingestion 3. Absorption 4. Injection Different types of Nerve agents - Answer-1. GA 2. Sarin GB 3. Soman GD 4. GF 5. VX G Series Nerve Agents - Answer-1. are volatile and non-persistent 2. Are called G series because they originated in Germany V series nerve agents - Answer-1.Slightly volatile and persistent 2. Death will occur within 15 minutes of fatal V series dosage Mild symptoms of Nerve agents - Answer-1. Headache 2. difficulty seeing 3. runny nose 4. saliva/drooling 5. Tightness of chest 6. Muscular twitching 7. Stomach cramps 8. Nausea Severe symptoms of Nerve agents - Answer-1. Confused behavior 2. Red eyes 3. pinpointed pupils 4. Gurgling sounds 5. Vomiting 6. Loss of bladder control 7Convulsions 8. Unconsciousness or stoppage of breathing 9. Causalities with severe symptoms can't treat themselves Blister agents or vesicant agents - Answer-1. Likely used to produce causalities to force opposing troops to wear full protective equipment 2. Can be thickened to contaminate terrain, ships, aircraft, etc. Vesicant Agents include - Answer-1. Sulfur mustard 2. Nitrogen mustard Arsenical vesicants - Answer-1. Lexisite 2. Halogenated oximes Choking Pulmonary agents - Answer-1. Chemical agents that attack lung tissue 2. Irritation of the bronchi, trachea, larynx, pharynx and nose 3. Consist of Phosgene CG, diphosgene DP, chlorine, and Chloropicrin PS Blood agents examples - Answer-1. Hydrogen cyanide AC 2. Cyanogen chloride CK Blood agents lower concentration symptoms - Answer-1. weakness of legs, dizziness, nausea and headache 2. May be followed by convulsions and coma Blood agents of moderate exposure - Answer-1. Dizziness 2. Nausea and vomiting 3. Headache 4. increased respiration 5. Reddening of lips and skin 6. Convulsions 7. Coma Severe exposure of blood agents - Answer-1. Increased respiration 1-2 seconds 2. Violent convulsions 29-30 seconds 3. Cessation of respiration 1 minute 4. Cessation of heart action few minutes WW1 chemical warfare usage - Answer-1. 1915- Germans used the choking agent chlorine and phosgene 2. 1917- Germans used first blister agent, mustard State use of chemical warfare agents - Answer-1. 1980 to 1989- Iraq used blister and nerve against Iranians 2. Iraq used nerve and other agents against the Kurds Terrorist use of chemical weapons - Answer-March 20, 1995- Poisonous gas sarin developed by Nazi Germany during World War II History of Biological agents - Answer-1. Decaying animals carcasses to contaminate wells go back over 2,000 years 2, In middle ages, bodies of plague victims catapulted into cities to cause sickness and death 3. World War 1 German agents in Baltimore attmpted to infect allied houses with anthrax and glanders Biological warfare research in WWII - Answer-1. Japan's General Ishi was developing bilogical warfare research program. Unit 731 used some of resulting agents against China 2. Japan also experimented with chemical agents