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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the rat when deposited near the satellite?
(a) it lays down and goes to sleep
(b) it becomes paralyzed
(c) it runs around looking for food
(d) it is dead within seconds

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

3. While running to the autopsy room, Hall notices that Leavitt appears to be in a trance. Why does he appear that way?
(a) he likes to stop and think during an emergency
(b) he's barely walking and keeps bumping into the walls
(c) he didn't get enough sleep the night before
(d) he's immobile looking at the flashing emergency lights

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

5. Where are the laboratories and equipment rooms that they will be using on level 5?
(a) along the perimeter of the cone
(b) anywhere there was room to put them
(c) in the north section of the level
(d) sealed away inside the central core

6. 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 two months early
(c) that he was sick last week
(d) baby Jamie cries constantly

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

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

9. What do they find out about the green substance and amino acids?
(a) it has no amino acids
(b) it makes amino acids out of the air
(c) it makes its own amino acids
(d) it shrinks in the presence of amino acids

10. When Hall realizes the reason for Jackson's and the baby's survival what does he do?
(a) asks the computer to report Andromeda growth results based on pH levels
(b) races to the autopsy lab to strut it out in front of Stone
(c) brags to his assistant, Karen
(d) jumps up and down pumping his fist

11. On what former scientific belief did Leavitt base his rule of 48?
(a) it is impossible to put any object into outer space
(b) the earth revolves around the sun
(c) the earth is flat
(d) science's once irrevocable conclusion that the human body contains forty-eight chromosomes

12. If one cell of E. coli could produce a supercolony equal in size and weight to the planet, why doesn't that happen?
(a) it's too fragile
(b) there's too many antibiotics in the world
(c) nature made it so it stops at a certain size
(d) food and oxygen run out

13. When Burton is still alive, but breathing fast from fear what does Hall do?
(a) Hall returns to his lab and stares at Peter Jackson through the glass
(b) he tells Stone he's going to the men's room
(c) he relaxes a moment and sits down
(d) he leaves to go check on Leavitt

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 is late for breakfast
(c) that he ought to take this project more seriously
(d) that tomorrow a male voice will waken him

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What's the first test Burton does on the two dead lab animals?

2. What did Stone and Leavitt find in the satellite?

3. In communications, why does Captain Morris check for computer malfunctions?

4. How did the men feel about finding a solution to Andromeda?

5. How will the scientist work on the satellite?

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