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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. What direction do Carson and de Vaca take?

2. What does he threaten to do to Levine?

3. Who interviews Brent Scopes?

4. What did Dr. Burt tell Amiko he did in his diary?

5. What does Nye hear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Guy see that leads him to realize that there is a widespread problem with PurBlood?

2. How does Carson finally manage to find the watering hole?

3. What skills does Carson use to evade Nye and keep himself and de Vaca alive?

4. What does Nye do to try to stop them?

5. How does Susana save Carson from death and both of them from Nye?

6. What does Scopes do when he comes to the conclusion that his security has been compromised?

7. What does Brent tell Levine when Levine begs him not to let the army have the virus?

8. How does Nye realize he must go after Carson and de Vaca, and what is his undoing?

9. What does Levine do while he is in the elevator, stuck between two floors?

10. What is the last thing Charles does as the guards arrive at the elevator and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Levine reveal information to a televised audience after he has been warned not to do so? What human quality does he rely on to help him to reveal facts to the audience? Does this absolve him of responsibility in the eyes of the law? Would this hold up in light of the pending lawsuit against him? Knowing the nature of people, could Levine be sure that his method of revelation would work?

Essay Topic 2

Dr. Burt commits an act of faith to create a shortcut in his science. What is the shortcut he takes? His actions cause a domino effect that has CEO Brent Scopes following his lead? What does Scopes do? How does he accomplish this in such a public matter that employees line up to join his example? What are the consequences of this action? If Dr. Burt had not started this ball rolling, is it likely that Scopes would have done what he did? How would the story have been different without these actions?

Essay Topic 3

What resources does Brent Scopes avail himself of to discredit Levine when he is bringing the events of Rosalind's death to light? How does Brent use these resources to undermine the credibility of Levine so that he is not taken as seriously? What effect does this counter attack have on Levine? How does this counter attack resemble the methods used by political sides seeking to gain advantage in the polls or over opponents?

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