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The Hot Zone Questions and Answers
The Question and Answer section for The Hot Zone is a great
resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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"The cave is large enough to hold seventy elephants at a time."
The mouth of the cave is huge - fifty-five yards wide - and it opens out even wider beyond the entrance. They crossed a platform covered with powdery dry elephant dung,...