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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

3. 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 survivor
(d) there is a very large buzzard flying at almost ground level

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

5. What does Dr. Hall think about the Wildfire project?
(a) that the government can't do anything right, including Wildfire
(b) he believed the whole project was theoretical and never expected to actually be called
(c) it is a stupid waste of money
(d) that the government is totally paronoid

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

7. Who is walking among the bodies?
(a) several dogs pulling on the clothes
(b) an old man in a white robe
(c) the town doctor
(d) a couple of house cats

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

9. What does their nighttime surveillance reveal?
(a) all the houses are lit up
(b) no activity in the town
(c) a big town party in the center of town
(d) a pack of dogs are barking at a door

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

11. 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

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

13. What did English biophysicist, J.J. Merrick, discuss at a biological symposium?
(a) the improbability of life in space
(b) whether humans should go into space
(c) whether biology was a science worth pursuing
(d) the probabilities of first contact with an alien species

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?

3. What spurred significant advances in biological science?

4. What kind of theory did noted scholar, Alfred Pockran, have about national crises?

5. What does Project Wildfire do?

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