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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is in the van with Lt. Shawn?
(a) no one, he's alone
(b) Private Lewis Crane
(c) his brother and nephew
(d) his dog, a german shepard

2. What doesn't the government tell Stone about Scoop?
(a) it's an attempt to engage in germ warfare by the U.S. military
(b) it is not under the control of Congress
(c) it has brought back other samples of alien life
(d) that a friend of his died from an alien virus a different Scoop brought back

3. 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

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

5. What is Project Wildfire?
(a) a think tank of politicians
(b) a project to reforest burnt land
(c) a high-tech laboratory, plus a team of scientists
(d) a program they taught in scool

6. What does Major Arthur Manchek order when he hears of the radio silence at Piedmont?
(a) he orders Lt. Comcoe to send a message to Crane on a secret channel
(b) he orders a Scavenger plane to make a flyby over Piedmont
(c) he orders a helicopter to Piedmont
(d) he orders a national guard unit into Piedmont

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

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

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

10. What does Hall believe about the possibility of a real Wildfire crisis?
(a) he doesn't believe any bacteria could survive space
(b) he believes the project is theoretical and never expects to be called
(c) he can't think of any reason he would be helpful in that type of work
(d) he doesn't think the US is capable of space travel

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

12. 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

13. What spurred significant advances in biological science?
(a) the invention of antibiotics
(b) the polio vaccine
(c) a cure for cancer
(d) the discovery of germs

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the officers give Stone when they get in the car?

3. How does Stone feel about Hall's appointment?

4. What does Dr. Hall think about the Wildfire project?

5. What does their nighttime surveillance reveal?

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