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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 they find out about the green substance and amino acids?
(a) it makes amino acids out of the air
(b) it shrinks in the presence of amino acids
(c) it has no amino acids
(d) it makes its own amino acids

2. What does Burton's tests determine about the dead bodies?
(a) they are disintegrating quickly
(b) they're not contagious, only the air surrounding them transmits the disease
(c) the disease stays on the dead body, still contagious
(d) the disease leaves after the body dies

3. Too whom does the female voice on the intercom belong?
(a) a sixty-three year old woman from Omaha, named Gladys Stevens
(b) one of the secretaries from level 1
(c) Dr. Stone's wife
(d) no one, it's computer simulated

4. Who is Major Arthur Manchek?
(a) the air force officer who flew a jet over Piedmont
(b) advisor to the president on the Scoop project
(c) the man who came up with the Wildfire idea
(d) Chief Duty Officer and man in charge of all Scoop Project activities

5. What is written on the first page of the book to help convey it as seeming to be a true story?
(a) these events took place on...
(b) this is a true story...
(c) direct from declassified government files...
(d) This File is Classified Top Secret

Short Answer Questions

1. What would it mean if Andromeda has mutated into a flesh-eating bacteria and now inhabits outer space?

2. Why does Crichton make Mark Hall his protagonist, in view of the science/human debate in the book?

3. What does the Wildfire group eat for breakfast?

4. What does Dr. Hall think about the Wildfire project?

5. How does Stone feel about Hall's appointment?

(see the answer key)

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