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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the President respond to Stone's request for a directive 7-12?
(a) calls for a TNT strike instead
(b) he orders it to be done as soon as Stone is out of Piedmont
(c) he doesn't know what directive 7-12 is
(d) decides to postpone Manchek's request for forty-eight hours

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

3. What did Merrick theorize?
(a) that alien species could not exist
(b) the first alien species encountered by man would be a bacterium
(c) that alien species would be hostile
(d) that alien species would contact earth

4. Why do the two men have radio-directional equipment on the van?
(a) to find the town of Piedmont
(b) to be able to track aircraft
(c) to find a good radio station
(d) to triangulate the position of the Scoop satellite

5. How does Leavitt feel about Wildfire?
(a) he's skeptical that it is necessary
(b) he is fascinated with Wildfire and excited to be working on it
(c) he misses his wife and wishes he hadn't been called
(d) he's indifferent

6. What is Dr. Stone doing when the military shows up at his door?
(a) he's not there, he's at work
(b) saying good-bye to dinner guests
(c) reading the newspaper
(d) sleeping

7. 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) tells Stone he'll have to join the military to do anything
(d) refuses to help

8. What do the officers give Stone when they get in the car?
(a) a telephone to call other scientist
(b) a file on Wildfire
(c) a file on the crisis
(d) a handgun

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

10. What is Project Wildfire?
(a) a program they taught in scool
(b) a project to reforest burnt land
(c) a high-tech laboratory, plus a team of scientists
(d) a think tank of politicians

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

12. In Delta sector on Level I, a man sits before a giant communications console. What is his job?
(a) to take messages from the men's families
(b) to hit the emergency button if a virus gets out
(c) to monitor all incoming communications and inform the Wildfire team of any important developments
(d) to make sure no unauthorized person enters

13. Who is walking among the bodies?
(a) the town doctor
(b) an old man in a white robe
(c) several dogs pulling on the clothes
(d) a couple of house cats

14. What does Manchek do after he finishes the call with Jagger?
(a) takes his dog for a walk
(b) decides to call for a state of emergency
(c) meets his wife for breakfast
(d) goes to bed

15. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?
(a) he experiments with human DNA
(b) he's an expert on zero gravity effect on growth of plants
(c) he studies the effects of sunlight on viruses
(d) studying the effects of bacteria on human tissues

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Hall, a surgeon, chosen for the team?

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

3. What do they find when they cut open a victim's wrist?

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

5. What does Jagger conclude about the white spots, based on the temperature?

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