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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Based on the a Millipore filter size what does Burton conclude?
(a) the agent reponds to light
(b) it is too big to be airborne
(c) the agent could only be a larger molecule like a bacterial cell
(d) it's not from earth

2. What has the mutated Andromeda strain started to do?
(a) it is now eating away at American and Russian spacecraft
(b) it is killing off all the birds in the world
(c) it is eating through all oil reserves
(d) it is sending binary code signals

3. What does Hall do at the computer when he is in the room with his patients?
(a) plays a card game
(b) tells it to give the patients a flu vaccination
(c) sets up a way to get real food
(d) uses it to order fifteen to twenty lab tests for the patients

4. What does Jagger show Manchek on a conference call?
(a) a paper with TOP SECRET printed on it
(b) the infrared film images of the town
(c) a red coded phone that connects to Wildfire
(d) he doesn't show them anything, they're on a phone

5. Why does Crichton explain the logic behind the various scientific instruments used?
(a) because that's how science fiction is written
(b) so that laymen can understand the options scientists and engineers have
(c) to make the book more interesting
(d) so everyone can see how smart he is

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the nature of all national crises prior to the scientific boom was?

2. What doesn't the government tell Stone about Scoop?

3. In Delta sector on Level I, a man sits before a giant communications console. What is his job?

4. What is written on the first page of the book to help convey it as seeming to be a true story?

5. What happens as the men stare at the green substance attached to the meteor?

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