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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 when they cut open a victim's wrist?
(a) the blood is no longer liquid; it resembles a red sponge
(b) the blood has hard, white nodules in it
(c) the blood has turned green
(d) nothing, they never cut open a victim's wrist

2. What can the readers find in the Bibliography that lends yet more authenticity to the story?
(a) there is no bibliography
(b) characters' names and the names of their published works
(c) books about Wildfire
(d) articles on the Andromeda strain

3. There is another way for Hall to reach a substation. What is it?
(a) going through the ventilation shafts
(b) going up the outside of the lab
(c) climbing to another level through the central core
(d) taking an elevator to level 4

4. What does Jackson do for his ulcer?
(a) he doesn't do anything
(b) he eats a gallon of vanilla ice cream every day
(c) he takes nearly a bottle of aspirin a day and sips from a can of Sterno
(d) he drinks maalox

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Manchek contact Wildfire?

2. What does the narrator say the nature of all national crises prior to the scientific boom was?

3. What happens when Hall runs to the door?

4. Who is walking among the bodies?

5. How does Leavitt feel about Wildfire?

(see the answer key)

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