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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mark Hall learn about the Wildfire lab as he's reading the last of the file?
(a) that it's located in a mountain near Denver
(b) the facility is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device
(c) that it was made to look like a little town
(d) that it has fifteen rooms on each floor

2. According to the narrator, science has the potential to do two things. What are they?
(a) prove or disprove an hypothesis
(b) fail at finding anwers or succeed at finding answers
(c) to empower or to enslave humanity
(d) good things or bad things

3. Why does Crichton explain the logic behind the various scientific instruments used?
(a) because that's how science fiction is written
(b) so everyone can see how smart he is
(c) to make the book more interesting
(d) so that laymen can understand the options scientists and engineers have

4. What does Samuel "Gunner" Wilson, pilot of the Scavenger plane see as he flies over Piedmont?
(a) the white robed man jumping up and down and waving
(b) a line of bodies stretched out below him in the center of Piedmont.
(c) an old Ford with its lights flashing
(d) he doesn't see anything, it's too dark

5. When a training pilot crashes after flying above the Piedmont area, what do they find at the plane?
(a) all the new plastic polymer that replaced rubber in the plane has dissolved
(b) the instrument panel was gone
(c) the pilot was too young to be flying
(d) the pilot had left a note to his wife

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hall do at the computer when he is in the room with his patients?

2. What do they put into the room with the satellite first?

3. Whose choice is it, which way science goes, according to the narrator?

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

5. In Delta sector on Level I, a man sits before a giant communications console. What is his job?

(see the answer key)

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