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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) tells Stone he'll have to join the military to do anything
(b) says the military can take care of any aliens
(c) allocates $22 million for construction of a special, isolated laboratory
(d) refuses to help

2. What do the white spots on Jagger's film indicate?
(a) solar flares occuring
(b) that the camera picked up the flares on the ground
(c) that water fell on the film
(d) human bodies, dead or alive

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

4. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?
(a) studying the effects of bacteria on human tissues
(b) he experiments with human DNA
(c) he's an expert on zero gravity effect on growth of plants
(d) he studies the effects of sunlight on viruses

5. When Dr. Stone hears of Merrick's theory what does he do?
(a) he thinks there's nothing that can be done about it
(b) acts as an advocate for research into this possibility
(c) he thinks Merrick should be fired from his position
(d) he laughs at them

6. In what configuration is the Wildfire lab built?
(a) five underground levels connected by a central core
(b) in a pentagon, like the one in Washington
(c) as a skyscraper
(d) it looks like a large ranch

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

8. 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

9. 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) drop gas canisters to kill the birds
(d) they drop a net to capture one of the birds

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

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

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

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

14. What is the first response to Mancheck's call to Wildfire?
(a) a top-secret cable is issued informing other military units
(b) to call each scientist on the list
(c) to call the White House
(d) to shut down the electricity around Piedmont

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about Lieutenant Shawn's life?

2. What does Jagger conclude about the white spots, based on the temperature?

3. What does Samuel "Gunner" Wilson, pilot of the Scavenger plane see as he flies over Piedmont?

4. Dr. Stone heads to Piedmont with another scientist. Who is he?

5. What does Lt. Comroe at mission control do when told about the bodies?

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