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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lt. Comroe at mission control do when told about the bodies?
(a) calls for a security lock down
(b) starts to shake and runs out of the room
(c) calls his sister and tells her to get out of Arizona
(d) faints

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

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

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

5. What spurred significant advances in biological science?
(a) the polio vaccine
(b) the invention of antibiotics
(c) the discovery of germs
(d) a cure for cancer

6. Why are the private and lieutenant looking for the Scoop satellite?
(a) they want to sell it to another country
(b) it is their mission to recover it
(c) they're curious about what it looks like
(d) they're supposed to destroy it

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

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

9. What does Mark Hall learn about the Wildfire lab as he's reading the last of the file?
(a) that it's located in a mountain near Denver
(b) that it has fifteen rooms on each floor
(c) the facility is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device
(d) that it was made to look like a little town

10. 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

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

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

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

14. How does Stone feel about Hall's appointment?
(a) he's decided fate must have a reason
(b) he's indifferent to it
(c) he's happy and enthusiastic about it
(d) it's against his wishes

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. After going to code red, what does Manchek do?

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

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

4. What is Burton and Stone's working hypothesis about the killer in Piedmont?

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

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