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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

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

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

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

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

7. What does their nighttime surveillance reveal?
(a) no activity in the town
(b) a pack of dogs are barking at a door
(c) a big town party in the center of town
(d) all the houses are lit up

8. On the way to Wildfire, what does Dr. Leavitt tell Dr. Hall to do?
(a) to read the project file before arriving at Wildfire
(b) make out his will
(c) call his mother and tell her where he is
(d) take Leavitt's blood pressure

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

10. What does the narrator say about Lieutenant Shawn's life?
(a) that he is young and has a long life ahead of him
(b) that he's been wasting it
(c) that he is soon to start college
(d) that these are the last few moments he will live

11. 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 national guard unit into Piedmont
(c) he orders Lt. Comcoe to send a message to Crane on a secret channel
(d) he orders a helicopter to Piedmont

12. 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's an attempt to engage in germ warfare by the U.S. military
(c) it has brought back other samples of alien life
(d) it is not under the control of Congress

13. What is the population of Piedmont, Arizona?
(a) 2033
(b) 100
(c) 15
(d) 48

14. When Dr. Stone hears of Merrick's theory what does he do?
(a) acts as an advocate for research into this possibility
(b) he thinks Merrick should be fired from his position
(c) he laughs at them
(d) he thinks there's nothing that can be done about it

15. 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) that the government can't do anything right, including Wildfire
(c) it is a stupid waste of money
(d) that the government is totally paronoid

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?

2. Who do they find alive in the town?

3. What do Lt. Shawn and Pvt. Crane find in Piedmont?

4. What does Lt. Comroe at mission control do when told about the bodies?

5. What does Hall do about his appointment to Wildfire?

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