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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While running to the autopsy room, Hall notices that Leavitt appears to be in a trance. Why does he appear that way?
(a) he likes to stop and think during an emergency
(b) he didn't get enough sleep the night before
(c) he's immobile looking at the flashing emergency lights
(d) he's barely walking and keeps bumping into the walls

3. What does the team decide Hall has to find out?
(a) what the old man and the infant have in common which protected them both from death
(b) how to cure Jackson's ulcer
(c) why the infant cries all the time
(d) how fast he can get to each substation

4. Why does an electron microscope work better than any other type of scope?
(a) it uses magnetic fields rather than light rays to view and enlarge objects
(b) it uses lasers to shine on the subject
(c) it uses electric current across the lens
(d) it has a bigger lens

5. What type of waste products did Andromeda produce?
(a) carbon and water
(b) amino acids
(c) it doesn't produce any
(d) starch, sugar and hydrogen

Short Answer Questions

1. How often do the doctors get together to discuss results?

2. What do they do when they realize a nuclear detonation in Piedmont will provide Andromeda with a limitless supply of energy?

3. What happens to the rat when deposited near the satellite?

4. How is the center core protected, level to level?

5. What happens when Robertson informs them of the Phantom crash team's discovery of the depolymerized polymer and the fleshless bone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the x-ray crystallography results show about Andromeda?

2. Write about some of the mistakes the scientists made when dealing with Andromeda.

3. When Hall realizes why Jackson is alive, what does he figure out about the baby?

4. What does Hall realize about Andromeda when thinking about Jackson's acidosis?

5. How does Hall finally find out about Leavitt's epilepsy and what does he do about it?

6. Leavitt has a dream about a house. When he wakens he believes it has an answer to Andromeda. Describe the dream and his thoughts and reactions to the dream.

7. What do you think Montaigne meant by the quote "Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves." in relationship to the behavior of the men at Wildfire?

8. How did the Scoop satellite end up on earth? What do the scientist think?

9. In the conference room in Chapter 12, Dr. Stone talks about a man named Rudolph Karp. Who is Karp? Why does Stone discuss him?

10. Describe the study Leavitt uses as the basis for his rule of 48.

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