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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Stone tell his wife as he leaves?
(a) that he will be gone for an indefinite number of weeks
(b) that he'd see her tomorrow
(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

2. When over the town, Stone and Burton see buzzards eating the bodies. What do they do?
(a) they drop a net to capture one of the birds
(b) drop gas canisters to kill the birds
(c) they don't do anything
(d) fly by low to scare the buzzards away

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

4. What does Major Arthur Manchek order when he hears of the radio silence at Piedmont?
(a) he orders a Scavenger plane to make a flyby over 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 national guard unit into Piedmont

5. What does Stone say the government should do about the possibility of alien bacteria?
(a) they shouldn't do anything unless it happens
(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) the government should construct a laboratory equipped to handle dangerous alien bacteria

6. When the communication specialist checks the equipment, what does he find?
(a) there's something wrong with the communication system
(b) there's paper stopping the bell from ringing
(c) the communications computer appears to be functioning perfectly
(d) he's sees a computer monitor that is turned off

7. Where is Mission Control for Project Scoop located?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) NASA headquarters in Birmingham
(c) Ft. Sill, Oklahoma
(d) Vandenberg Airforce Base

8. What doesn't the government tell Stone about Scoop?
(a) that a friend of his died from an alien virus a different Scoop brought back
(b) it is not under the control of Congress
(c) it has brought back other samples of alien life
(d) it's an attempt to engage in germ warfare by the U.S. military

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

10. What does Private Crane do for Lt. Shawn?
(a) he is Lt. Shawn's electronics technician
(b) cooks his meals
(c) drives the van
(d) nothing, there is no Private Crane

11. What is Burton and Stone's working hypothesis about the killer in Piedmont?
(a) it doesn't seem to affect dogs
(b) it works very slowly
(c) it is passed by contact with an infected individual
(d) the agent must have transmitted itself through the air

12. What does Jagger show Manchek on a conference call?
(a) a paper with TOP SECRET printed on it
(b) the infrared film images of the town
(c) a red coded phone that connects to Wildfire
(d) he doesn't show them anything, they're on a phone

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stone feel about Hall's appointment?

2. What did English biophysicist, J.J. Merrick, discuss at a biological symposium?

3. What does Dr. Hall notice about Dr. Leavitt as they get in the sedan that was sent for them?

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

5. What does their nighttime surveillance reveal?

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