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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hall do about his appointment to Wildfire?
(a) nothing, he has never taken his commitment to Wildfire seriously
(b) he asks for all the information so he can keep abreast of new developments
(c) he demands more money than the government is offering
(d) he demands to appoint a friend of his to the project

2. What does Dr. Hall think about the Wildfire project?
(a) he believed the whole project was theoretical and never expected to actually be called
(b) it is a stupid waste of money
(c) that the government can't do anything right, including Wildfire
(d) that the government is totally paronoid

3. After going to code red, what does Manchek do?
(a) calls out the National Guard
(b) calls the President of the United States
(c) takes a helicopter to Piedmont
(d) hesitates before making his next move

4. What does Stone find out about project Scoop on the way to the Wildfire lab?
(a) that NASA doesn't know about it
(b) that a civilian billionaire is paying for it
(c) it was designed to obtain samples of alien bacterial life in space
(d) that the Scoop satellite in Piedmont is the first one sent up

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

6. What does Stone ask Manchek to call for to take care of the danger at Piedmont?
(a) a load of pesticides to spray on Piedmont
(b) a thousand ultraviolet lights
(c) a limited thermo-nuclear strike to sanitize the area
(d) the National Guard

7. What does Dr. Stone tell his wife as he leaves?
(a) that he'd see her tomorrow
(b) that he will be gone for an indefinite number of weeks
(c) that there must be some mistake, he'll go clear it up
(d) that it's an emergency epidemic and to pack her bag

8. What is the first response to Mancheck's call to Wildfire?
(a) to shut down the electricity around Piedmont
(b) a top-secret cable is issued informing other military units
(c) to call the White House
(d) to call each scientist on the list

9. What does Major Arthur Manchek order when he hears of the radio silence at Piedmont?
(a) he orders a national guard unit into Piedmont
(b) he orders a helicopter to Piedmont
(c) he orders Lt. Comcoe to send a message to Crane on a secret channel
(d) he orders a Scavenger plane to make a flyby over Piedmont

10. When they arrive at Piedmont, what do Burton and Stone do first?
(a) go to the recon van and honk the horn over and over
(b) drag the dead bodies to a central location
(c) find the satellite and put it in a container
(d) call in the National Guard

11. How does Manchek contact Wildfire?
(a) his contact is in the next building on the base
(b) he has been given a business card with a contact number
(c) he has to call the White House
(d) he has to call his superior officer

12. What does the Department of Defense do about Stone's proposal?
(a) allocates $22 million for construction of a special, isolated laboratory
(b) says the military can take care of any aliens
(c) refuses to help
(d) tells Stone he'll have to join the military to do anything

13. What does Stone say the government should do about the possibility of alien bacteria?
(a) the government should construct a laboratory equipped to handle dangerous alien bacteria
(b) they should offer a grant to Stone to look at the question
(c) they should sit up a comittee and study the question
(d) they shouldn't do anything unless it happens

14. Dr. Stone heads to Piedmont with another scientist. Who is he?
(a) Dr. Steven Levine
(b) Dr. Charles Burton, professor at Baylor Medical School
(c) Dr. Kathleen Coller
(d) Dr. Byon Shelby

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Manchek asked to do when he calls to alert Wildfire?

2. What did Merrick theorize?

3. When the communication specialist checks the equipment, what does he find?

4. What does Lt. Shawn do as he approaches Piedmont?

5. What does Private Crane do for Lt. Shawn?

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