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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hall race back to the autopsy room to stop?
(a) the pumping of oxygen into the room
(b) Leavitt from having another seizure
(c) Stone from opening the door of the autopsy room
(d) Burton from dying

2. What does Stone do when they find the message?
(a) shruggs his shoulders and quotes politics
(b) rips it up and throws it in the trash
(c) calls the president's advisor to try to talk him into initiating directive 7-12 immediately
(d) asks the others what they should do

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

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

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

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

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

8. What do they do when they realize a nuclear detonation in Piedmont will provide Andromeda with a limitless supply of energy?
(a) cry
(b) faint dead away
(c) call off the directive 7-12 to nuke Piedmont
(d) start screaming at each other

9. What happens when Hall runs to the door?
(a) he gets his arm caught in the sliding door
(b) he gets out and runs to the substation down the hall
(c) it's too late; he is sealed in, away from the substations
(d) he slips, falls and breaks his ankle

10. What is the The Messenger Theory?
(a) that atoms communicate with other atoms to bind together
(b) that molecues talk to each other through light
(c) that Morse code is effective
(d) tiny organisms that grow into a complete life form capable of communicating

11. What do they put into the room with the satellite first?
(a) a black Norway lab rat
(b) a pig
(c) a white cat
(d) a brown dog

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

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

14. What does Hall do as he finishes turning his key in the level 4 substation?
(a) he jumps up and down and sings
(b) he slides down the wall unconscious
(c) he grabs a nurse and kisses her
(d) he calmly returns to level 5

15. What bothers Hall about the substations that will turn off a self-destruct?
(a) that he could be sealed off in a section without a substation
(b) they're spaced too close together
(c) they're painted red
(d) it takes too much time to insert the key

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the spectrometer show about the composition of the Andromeda strain?

2. What does Hall think about Burton's fear?

3. What happens to the men's attitude now that they know directive 7-12 was not invoked?

4. When a training pilot crashes after flying above the Piedmont area, what do they find at the plane?

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

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