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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What briefing does Manchek think about when reviewing what Jagger has told him?
(a) the briefing about space travel
(b) the briefing he received on Project Wildfire
(c) about the briefing on how to call the President
(d) about what to do in a state of emergency

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

3. How does Leavitt feel about Wildfire?
(a) he is fascinated with Wildfire and excited to be working on it
(b) he misses his wife and wishes he hadn't been called
(c) he's indifferent
(d) he's skeptical that it is necessary

4. On Jagger's film, one of the white images is in motion. What does that mean?
(a) the pilot went too fast when he shot the film
(b) the camera moved when it shot the picture
(c) there is a very large buzzard flying at almost ground level
(d) there is a survivor

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

6. 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) allocates $22 million for construction of a special, isolated laboratory
(c) says the military can take care of any aliens
(d) refuses to help

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

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

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

10. What is Dr. Stone doing when the military shows up at his door?
(a) reading the newspaper
(b) he's not there, he's at work
(c) sleeping
(d) saying good-bye to dinner guests

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When over the town, Stone and Burton see buzzards eating the bodies. What do they do?

2. When Dr. Stone hears of Merrick's theory what does he do?

3. What does Lt. Shawn do as he approaches Piedmont?

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

5. Who is walking among the bodies?

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