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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Manchek contact Wildfire?
(a) he has to call his superior officer
(b) his contact is in the next building on the base
(c) he has to call the White House
(d) he has been given a business card with a contact number

2. 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

3. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?
(a) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify the FBI
(b) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify SECURITY OFFICER 37
(c) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify the fire department
(d) IN CASE OF FIRE -- Notify Division 87 -- Emergencies Only

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

5. What does Hall believe about the possibility of a real Wildfire crisis?
(a) he can't think of any reason he would be helpful in that type of work
(b) he doesn't believe any bacteria could survive space
(c) he believes the project is theoretical and never expects to be called
(d) he doesn't think the US is capable of space travel

6. What does Major Arthur Manchek order when he hears of the radio silence at Piedmont?
(a) he orders Lt. Comcoe to send a message to Crane on a secret channel
(b) he orders a national guard unit into Piedmont
(c) he orders a Scavenger plane to make a flyby over Piedmont
(d) he orders a helicopter to Piedmont

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

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

9. What does Jagger conclude about the white spots, based on the temperature?
(a) forty-seven of the bodies are definitely dead
(b) it's quite cold in Piedmont right now
(c) it's very hot in Piedmont right now
(d) Crane and Shawn might still be alive

10. What is Manchek asked to do when he calls to alert Wildfire?
(a) to destroy all evidence
(b) nothing, activating Wildfire is completely automated
(c) to write up a report of the incident
(d) to meet with the scientists

11. 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) the facility is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device
(c) that it was made to look like a little town
(d) that it has fifteen rooms on each floor

12. What do they find when they cut open a victim's wrist?
(a) the blood is no longer liquid; it resembles a red sponge
(b) the blood has turned green
(c) the blood has hard, white nodules in it
(d) nothing, they never cut open a victim's wrist

13. What does Lt. Shawn do as he approaches Piedmont?
(a) pulls on a biological agent suit
(b) turns off his headlights so no one can see him
(c) leaves his radio on after calling in
(d) stops and tells Private Crane to get out and wait for him on the hill

14. 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) he doesn't see anything, it's too dark
(c) the white robed man jumping up and down and waving
(d) a line of bodies stretched out below him in the center of Piedmont.

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Burton appear to Stone?

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

3. What does Dr. Hall think about the Wildfire project?

4. On Jagger's film, one of the white images is in motion. What does that mean?

5. What concerned Merrick about alien encounters?

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