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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as soon as more gaskets are discovered to be damaged?
(a) they focus ultrviolet lights on the doors
(b) the self-destruct sequence begins
(c) they use caulk to seal off the areas
(d) they decide to evacuate

2. What does Stone see when he turns on the scope?
(a) a densely packed blob with no real edges
(b) a long, stringy virus
(c) a perfect six-sided hexagon, interlocked with other equally perfect hexagons on each side
(d) a molecue in the shape of a triangle

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

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

5. 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) taking an elevator to level 4
(d) going up the outside of the lab

6. Based on the a Millipore filter size what does Burton conclude?
(a) the agent could only be a larger molecule like a bacterial cell
(b) the agent reponds to light
(c) it is too big to be airborne
(d) it's not from earth

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

8. How is the center core protected, level to level?
(a) with guard dogs
(b) with electrical shocks
(c) with laser beams
(d) sensors track movement in the core, and shoot ligamine darts at any moving target

9. How will the scientist work on the satellite?
(a) behind an ultraviolet barrier
(b) with binoculars
(c) metallic hands inside the sealed room
(d) with latex gloves on their hands

10. 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 attacks the blood vessel walls directly
(d) Andromeda burrows in the blood vessels

11. What is Leavitt's rule of "48"?
(a) all scientists are obsessed with their work
(b) there's 48 ways to do anything
(c) all scientists are blind
(d) there's 48 types of mistakes in any problem

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

13. What does Hall think about Burton's fear?
(a) that he'd be afraid too, in that position
(b) that he's a whimp
(c) The idea of being scared to death is somehow the answer
(d) that the man shouldn't have gone into this kind of work

14. What's the first test Burton does on the two dead lab animals?
(a) breathing test to make sure they're dead
(b) a nerve reflex test
(c) vector experiments to determine how the mysterious disease is transmitted
(d) a blood test

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they put into the room with the satellite first?

2. When Burton is still alive, but breathing fast from fear what does Hall do?

3. If the organism directly converts energy to matter with no waste what is it functioning like?

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

5. While running to the autopsy room, Hall notices that Leavitt appears to be in a trance. Why does he appear that way?

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