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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?
(a) a couple of bears
(b) two purple vans with peace symbols
(c) the town of Piedmont, Arizona
(d) his brother's backyard

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

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

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

5. What is Caper One?
(a) a set-up to catch a drug dealer
(b) the name of the Scoop satellite's mission
(c) the name of Lt. Shawn's mission
(d) the name of Lt. Shawn's german shepard

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

7. After going to code red, what does Manchek do?
(a) calls the President of the United States
(b) hesitates before making his next move
(c) calls out the National Guard
(d) takes a helicopter to Piedmont

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

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

10. What brought about the first scientific crisis in history?
(a) the advent of modern science
(b) the invasion of aliens
(c) the discovery of the atom
(d) the discovery of an alien space ship

11. 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) decides to postpone Manchek's request for forty-eight hours
(c) calls for a TNT strike instead
(d) he orders it to be done as soon as Stone is out of Piedmont

12. What does Project Wildfire do?
(a) investigates possible extraterrestrial life forms introduced to earth by returning spacecraft.
(b) investigates forest fires in America
(c) investigates NASA projects
(d) investigates any epidepic of Asian origin

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

14. What does the narrator say the nature of all national crises prior to the scientific boom was?
(a) all national crises were economical in nature
(b) all national crises were medical in nature
(c) all national crises were educational in nature
(d) all national crises were political in nature

15. When they arrive at Piedmont, what do Burton and Stone do first?
(a) call in the National Guard
(b) drag the dead bodies to a central location
(c) find the satellite and put it in a container
(d) go to the recon van and honk the horn over and over

Short Answer Questions

1. What briefing does Manchek think about when reviewing what Jagger has told him?

2. What do they find when they cut open a victim's wrist?

3. What is the population of Piedmont, Arizona?

4. What does Major Arthur Manchek order when he hears of the radio silence at Piedmont?

5. What does Manchek do after he finishes the call with Jagger?

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