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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Hall, a surgeon, chosen for the team?
(a) because he had a great personality
(b) because they needed one scientist who wasn't married
(c) because they needed one medical doctor
(d) officials who believe in The Odd Man Hypothesis wanted him

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

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

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

5. What were the first two scientific crises in history?
(a) a viable solar energy system and splitting the atom
(b) the atomic energy and space capability crises
(c) finding a vaccine for small pox and the Andromeda Strain
(d) the flu epidemic of 1918 and electrical power generation

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

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

8. 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 make sure no unauthorized person enters
(d) to monitor all incoming communications and inform the Wildfire team of any important developments

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

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

11. What's the last thing Lt. Comcoe hears from the radio?
(a) two dogs barking and growling at each other
(b) the man in the white robe talking to Shawn
(c) Crane calling out in a high-pitched scream
(d) someone pounding on Lt. Shawn's van door

12. What do Lt. Shawn and Pvt. Crane find in Piedmont?
(a) no people on the streets
(b) the traffic light doesn't work
(c) dead bodies in the middle of the street
(d) just a town with people going about their business

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the personnel in the lab have to do to go to level 5?

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

3. What does Hall believe about the possibility of a real Wildfire crisis?

4. What does the narrator say about the men of Wildfire that will affect the outcome of the work?

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

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