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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lt. Comroe at mission control do when told about the bodies?
(a) calls his sister and tells her to get out of Arizona
(b) faints
(c) starts to shake and runs out of the room
(d) calls for a security lock down

2. What is Caper One?
(a) the name of the Scoop satellite's mission
(b) a set-up to catch a drug dealer
(c) the name of Lt. Shawn's german shepard
(d) the name of Lt. Shawn's mission

3. Why are the private and lieutenant looking for the Scoop satellite?
(a) they're supposed to destroy it
(b) it is their mission to recover it
(c) they're curious about what it looks like
(d) they want to sell it to another country

4. 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

5. Who do they find alive in the town?
(a) two children hiding under a porch
(b) the man in a white robe and a crying infant
(c) a German shepard and a canary
(d) no one

6. What do the personnel in the lab have to do to go to level 5?
(a) get on the elevator and push the button
(b) strip off their clothes and ride to level five naked
(c) personnel are required to undergo stringent decontamination and quarantine procedures
(d) take a shower and put on scrubs

7. What does Hall believe about the possibility of a real Wildfire crisis?
(a) he doesn't think the US is capable of space travel
(b) he can't think of any reason he would be helpful in that type of work
(c) he doesn't believe any bacteria could survive space
(d) he believes the project is theoretical and never expects to be called

8. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?
(a) two purple vans with peace symbols
(b) a couple of bears
(c) his brother's backyard
(d) the town of Piedmont, Arizona

9. What do they see in the sky over Piedmont?
(a) a radio blaring rock music
(b) large black birds flying in a circular pattern
(c) two cats fighting on a fence
(d) a couple of teenagers breaking into a store

10. What kind of theory did noted scholar, Alfred Pockran, have about national crises?
(a) crises are created by the individual men involved in the events
(b) crisis always have a beginning and end
(c) crisis are created by politicians for good ratings
(d) crisis are created by enemies of the nation

11. What does Dr. Hall notice about Dr. Leavitt as they get in the sedan that was sent for them?
(a) Leavitt turns his head away from the flashing lights on top of the sedan.
(b) his hair has thinned on top
(c) he looks a lot younger than his age
(d) he's limping on his right leg

12. What does the narrator say about the men of Wildfire that will affect the outcome of the work?
(a) the men are only looking after their own interest
(b) the men are actually aliens wanting to harm the world
(c) the men have some fatal flaws, which will escalate the crisis
(d) the men don't really know what to do

13. What concerned Merrick about alien encounters?
(a) the possibility of a plague resulting from an alien bacteria
(b) that their technology would be much better than ours
(c) that they would be hostile and superior
(d) that they have been kidnapping humans for years

14. In what configuration is the Wildfire lab built?
(a) as a skyscraper
(b) five underground levels connected by a central core
(c) it looks like a large ranch
(d) in a pentagon, like the one in Washington

15. Who is in the van with Lt. Shawn?
(a) Private Lewis Crane
(b) his brother and nephew
(c) no one, he's alone
(d) his dog, a german shepard

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Major Arthur Manchek order when he hears of the radio silence at Piedmont?

2. What does Samuel "Gunner" Wilson, pilot of the Scavenger plane see as he flies over Piedmont?

3. What do the officers give Stone when they get in the car?

4. What did Merrick theorize?

5. What brought about the first scientific crisis in history?

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