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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When over the town, Stone and Burton see buzzards eating the bodies. What do they do?

2. What does Project Wildfire do?

3. What does Manchek do after he finishes the call with Jagger?

4. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?

5. What does Stone ask Manchek to call for to take care of the danger at Piedmont?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what the Wildfire lab looks like on first approach.

2. In Chapter 3, the narrator discusses the nature of crisis from a historical perspective. What does he have to say about the nature of crisis?

3. What is Jagger's job and what does he say about the reconnoiter photos and what they show.

4. Describe the chain of events, in Stone's mind that has lead up to project Wildfire.

5. How is Wildfire put into action by Manchek's phone call?

6. Write about the narrator. What is his purpose? How is his purpose carried out?

7. What were the two things Stone and Burton knew when they landed in Piedmont?

8. Describe Dr. Burton as he rides in the helicopter with Dr. Stone going to Piedmont. Tell a little of his background in science.

9. Write about the procedure the three planes used to look at and take pictures of Piedmont and the capability of the scavenger spy plane.

10. The author states his theme that crises are made up of human personalities. How does he introduce his characters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe all the objects in your home and their uses that were invented in the past thirty years. Do you think life would be difficult without them? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The process of "decontaminating" the body is almost inherently self-hating. It is as if Jeremy Stone, who designed the Wildfire decontamination process, believes human bodies are loathsome and dirty. Visualize a world where everyone thought this. How would humans interact? What type of emotions do you think humans would develop? How would reproduction occur? If you stepped into a world in the future where the human body was considered loathsome and dirty, where no one would get close to another person, how would you feel? What would you do?

Essay Topic 3

Pretend that the Andromeda Strain was engineered by aliens and sent to earth. Why do you think aliens would do that?

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