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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) tells Stone he'll have to join the military to do anything
(d) says the military can take care of any aliens

2. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. Who do they find alive in the town?
(a) two children hiding under a porch
(b) no one
(c) a German shepard and a canary
(d) the man in a white robe and a crying infant

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

15. What kind of theory did noted scholar, Alfred Pockran, have about national crises?
(a) crisis are created by enemies of the nation
(b) crisis always have a beginning and end
(c) crisis are created by politicians for good ratings
(d) crises are created by the individual men involved in the events

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Burton appear to Stone?

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

3. In what configuration is the Wildfire lab built?

4. Why do the two men have radio-directional equipment on the van?

5. Who is walking among the bodies?

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