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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 the Wildfire group eat for breakfast?
(a) a large pill which is all the nutrients they need
(b) eggs, toast and bacon
(c) oatmeal with honey
(d) a glass of dark brown juice, which tastes like orange juice

2. Burton's tests reveal that clotting begins in the lungs then progresses to the brain. What does that mean to him?
(a) the disease must be inhaled
(b) that the disease does't clog the arteries
(c) that the brain is not that vulnerable to the disease
(d) that eveyone suffucated before they died

3. What the main hypothesis the men have about why Scoop fell out of orbit?
(a) the Russians shot it down
(b) the satellite hit something in its path
(c) it was at the end of its allocated usefulness
(d) its batteries ran out

4. What does Lt. Shawn do as he approaches Piedmont?
(a) leaves his radio on after calling in
(b) turns off his headlights so no one can see him
(c) stops and tells Private Crane to get out and wait for him on the hill
(d) pulls on a biological agent suit

5. How does Burton appear to Stone?
(a) a monk in brown robes
(b) an absent-minded professor with sloppy clothes and untidy hair
(c) a sharp dresser and compulsive individual
(d) a young football player

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mark Hall learn about the Wildfire lab as he's reading the last of the file?

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

3. How is the center core protected, level to level?

4. What message have the men received without their knowledge, that they find by accident?

5. Who do they find alive in the town?

(see the answer key)

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