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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Stone heads to Piedmont with another scientist. Who is he?
(a) Dr. Steven Levine
(b) Dr. Charles Burton, professor at Baylor Medical School
(c) Dr. Byon Shelby
(d) Dr. Kathleen Coller

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

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

4. What doesn't the government tell Stone about Scoop?
(a) it is not under the control of Congress
(b) that a friend of his died from an alien virus a different Scoop brought back
(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. Why do the two men have radio-directional equipment on the van?
(a) to find a good radio station
(b) to triangulate the position of the Scoop satellite
(c) to find the town of Piedmont
(d) to be able to track aircraft

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

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

8. What is Burton and Stone's working hypothesis about the killer in Piedmont?
(a) it doesn't seem to affect dogs
(b) the agent must have transmitted itself through the air
(c) it is passed by contact with an infected individual
(d) it works very slowly

9. What do Lt. Shawn and Pvt. Crane find in Piedmont?
(a) dead bodies in the middle of the street
(b) just a town with people going about their business
(c) no people on the streets
(d) the traffic light doesn't work

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

11. What briefing does Manchek think about when reviewing what Jagger has told him?
(a) the briefing he received on Project Wildfire
(b) the briefing about space travel
(c) about what to do in a state of emergency
(d) about the briefing on how to call the President

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is walking among the bodies?

4. Why was Hall, a surgeon, chosen for the team?

5. In Delta sector on Level I, a man sits before a giant communications console. What is his job?

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