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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as the men stare at the green substance attached to the meteor?
(a) it turns purple and grows right before their eyes
(b) it begins to emit light in a pattern
(c) it grows smaller
(d) it starts to hum

2. What does Stone do to help Burton in the autopsy room when he's been exposed to Andromeda?
(a) nothing, he doesn't know what to do
(b) pumping oxygen into the room to inhibit the spread of Andromeda
(c) spraying the room with bleach
(d) coating the walls with antibiotics

3. Who wakes Mark Hall up his first morning at the Wildfire lab?
(a) a maid comes in to clean the room
(b) Dr. Stone calls him on the phone
(c) a seductive, female voice
(d) an alarm clock he set the previous night

4. What the main hypothesis the men have about why Scoop fell out of orbit?
(a) it was at the end of its allocated usefulness
(b) the Russians shot it down
(c) its batteries ran out
(d) the satellite hit something in its path

5. How often do the doctors get together to discuss results?
(a) they never get together, each man is responsible for his own area
(b) once every four hours
(c) every day
(d) every twelve hours

6. There is a lab rat in the room with Dr. Burton, what do Stone and Hall notice about it?
(a) it's white instead of black
(b) it's dead
(c) it's still alive
(d) it has blood running from its nose

7. What does the Wildfire group eat for breakfast?
(a) oatmeal with honey
(b) eggs, toast and bacon
(c) a large pill which is all the nutrients they need
(d) a glass of dark brown juice, which tastes like orange juice

8. Why does Stone feel they have plenty of time to solve the mystery of the satellite's contamination?
(a) the President said to take their time
(b) it's only been a couple days
(c) with Piedmont nuked there is no danger to the outside
(d) nothing bad has happened so far

9. What does Burton's tests determine about the dead bodies?
(a) the disease leaves after the body dies
(b) they're not contagious, only the air surrounding them transmits the disease
(c) the disease stays on the dead body, still contagious
(d) they are disintegrating quickly

10. What does Hall think made Jackson survive Andromeda?
(a) Andromeda doesn't like asprin
(b) excessive acid in the bloodstream might prevent Andromeda from growing
(c) his bleeding ulcer made it too hard for the blood to coagulate
(d) he's a mean, old man

11. What happens when Burton gives some live rats anti-coagulant to prevent blood clotting then exposes them?
(a) they bleed out of their noses
(b) they don't die when exposed to the disease
(c) the rats live longer, but still succumb to the disease
(d) they lay down and go to sleep

12. Now that Jackson is awake, what does he tell Hall about the baby?
(a) that he was a twin, but the other one died
(b) that he was sick last week
(c) that he was two months early
(d) baby Jamie cries constantly

13. While dealing with Burton, Hall and Stone hear another emergency announcement by the computer. It is:
(a) The gasket seals in three other sections have failed
(b) a nuclear bomb was dropped on Piedmont
(c) Leavitt is having another seizure
(d) Andromeda is now in level 1

14. What does the answering service supervisor tell Hall when he keeps pushing the red button by his bed?
(a) that pushing the red button calls him
(b) that he ought to take this project more seriously
(c) that tomorrow a male voice will waken him
(d) that he is late for breakfast

15. What type of waste products did Andromeda produce?
(a) carbon and water
(b) it doesn't produce any
(c) amino acids
(d) starch, sugar and hydrogen

Short Answer Questions

1. Burton's tests reveal that clotting begins in the lungs then progresses to the brain. What does that mean to him?

2. What happens when Robertson informs them of the Phantom crash team's discovery of the depolymerized polymer and the fleshless bone?

3. What does the Wildfire team believe about the origin of the Scoop contamination?

4. What happens when Hall runs to the door?

5. If one cell of E. coli could produce a supercolony equal in size and weight to the planet, why doesn't that happen?

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