At six-thirty, he gave an order to move out, and the column of vehicles left Fort Detrick's main gate and headed south, toward t
he Potomac River. It consisted of a line of ordinary automobiles—the officers' family cars, with the officers inside wearing civilian clothes, looking like commuters. The line of cars followed behind two unmarked military vehicles. One was a supply van and the other was a snow-white ambulance. It was an unmarked Level 4 biocontainment ambulance. Inside it there were an Army medical-evacuation team and a biocontainment pod known as a bubble stretcher. This was a combat medical stretcher enclosed by a biocontainment bubble made of clear plastic. If someone was bitten by a monkey, he would go into the bubble, and from there he would be transferred to the Slammer. The supply van was a white unmarked refrigerator truck. This was to hold dead monkeys and tubes of blood. What is the author’s purpose for including this paragraph?
a.to help the reader visualize the thorough precautions that were in place
b.to persuade the reader that safety precautions should always be followed
c.to inform the reader of what could happen if precautions were overlooked
d.to explain in great detail why such precautions were needed for the situation
a. to help the reader visualize the thorough precautions that were in place.
Explanation:
In this excerpt, the author describes with great detail all the precautions that were in place to deal with an emergency of this kind.The author describes the unmarked military vehicles, the biocontainment ambulance, the medical-evacuation team and the biocontainment pod. The author describes all of these details vividly in order to help the reader visualize the complexity of the enterprise.
