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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There is another way for Hall to reach a substation. What is it?
(a) going through the ventilation shafts
(b) climbing to another level through the central core
(c) going up the outside of the lab
(d) taking an elevator to level 4

2. What does the spectrometer show about the composition of the Andromeda strain?
(a) it resembles earthly organic life
(b) it is not alive
(c) it's radioactive
(d) it has carbon and silicon in it

3. What does the Wildfire team believe about the origin of the Scoop contamination?
(a) the contamination has earth germs that mutated
(b) they come to believe it is an alien life form
(c) that the contamination happened before the satellite left earth
(d) there is no contamination; nothing can live in space

4. What seems to produce the best growth in Andromeda?
(a) chocolate ice cream
(b) saline solution
(c) pure oxygen
(d) any type of energy causes it to grow well

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) every day
(c) every twelve hours
(d) once every four hours

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

7. What happens when Robertson informs them of the Phantom crash team's discovery of the depolymerized polymer and the fleshless bone?
(a) they send flowers to the pilot's wife
(b) they ignore it as being irrelevant
(c) they have an hour discussion about what might have happened
(d) they immediately download the information

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

9. Why are black Norway rats used in labs?
(a) because black hides dirt and blood
(b) because they're the cheapest ones available
(c) because they're very calm rats
(d) all black Norway rats are physically alike

10. Why does an electron microscope work better than any other type of scope?
(a) it has a bigger lens
(b) it uses lasers to shine on the subject
(c) it uses electric current across the lens
(d) it uses magnetic fields rather than light rays to view and enlarge objects

11. What is the men's theory about Andromeda and blood vessels?
(a) Andromeda attacks the blood vessel walls directly
(b) Andromeda strengthens blood vessels
(c) Andromeda burrows in the blood vessels
(d) Andromeda doesn't live well in blood vessels

12. 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

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

14. Why is the center core protected?
(a) to prevent potentially contaminated lab animals from escaping
(b) to bar people from being in it
(c) so a large bacteria can't float through it
(d) so terrorist can't get through it

15. When a training pilot crashes after flying above the Piedmont area, what do they find at the plane?
(a) the pilot was too young to be flying
(b) the pilot had left a note to his wife
(c) the instrument panel was gone
(d) all the new plastic polymer that replaced rubber in the plane has dissolved

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they find out about the green substance and amino acids?

2. What does Hall do as he finishes turning his key in the level 4 substation?

3. What is Leavitt's rule of "48"?

4. What does Stone do when they find the message?

5. What the main hypothesis the men have about why Scoop fell out of orbit?

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