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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people fear about modern medicine, according to this book?
(a) that most younger people aren't smart enough to go into medicine
(b) that medicine will become too expensive for most people
(c) that the human touch may be lost under the stranglehold of technology
(d) that medicine will not treat the elderly or handicapped

2. What does the narrator say about Lieutenant Shawn's life?
(a) that he's been wasting it
(b) that he is young and has a long life ahead of him
(c) that he is soon to start college
(d) that these are the last few moments he will live

3. What happens when Burton gives some live rats anti-coagulant to prevent blood clotting then exposes them?
(a) the rats live longer, but still succumb to the disease
(b) they bleed out of their noses
(c) they lay down and go to sleep
(d) they don't die when exposed to the disease

4. What's the last thing Lt. Comcoe hears from the radio?
(a) two dogs barking and growling at each other
(b) Crane calling out in a high-pitched scream
(c) someone pounding on Lt. Shawn's van door
(d) the man in the white robe talking to Shawn

5. On what former scientific belief did Leavitt base his rule of 48?
(a) science's once irrevocable conclusion that the human body contains forty-eight chromosomes
(b) the earth is flat
(c) the earth revolves around the sun
(d) it is impossible to put any object into outer space

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are black Norway rats used in labs?

2. What does Stone say the government should do about the possibility of alien bacteria?

3. In communications, why does Captain Morris check for computer malfunctions?

4. What does Dr. Stone tell his wife as he leaves?

5. How does the author establishes context and tone in the novel?

(see the answer key)

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