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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why isn't normal food available at the lab?
(a) it might provide a growth medium for bacteria
(b) it cost more than the nutrient drink
(c) there's too many people to figure out what to cook
(d) cooks aren't allowed on level 4 or 5

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

3. For what reason do the men decide some of the Piedmont people seemed to have committed suicide?
(a) they couldn't stand seeing all their family and friends dead
(b) Andromeda told them to do it
(c) they were too afraid to die of Andromeda
(d) brain hemorrhages are capable of causing insanity as well as death

4. Too whom does the female voice on the intercom belong?
(a) no one, it's computer simulated
(b) a sixty-three year old woman from Omaha, named Gladys Stevens
(c) one of the secretaries from level 1
(d) Dr. Stone's wife

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

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

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

8. What message have the men received without their knowledge, that they find by accident?
(a) that another sattellite has come down to earth
(b) that the plaque has spread to Texas
(c) the notification about the President's decision to delay directive 7-12
(d) that Dr. Leavitt's wife is in the hospital

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does Jackson do for his ulcer?
(a) he drinks maalox
(b) he doesn't do anything
(c) he eats a gallon of vanilla ice cream every day
(d) he takes nearly a bottle of aspirin a day and sips from a can of Sterno

15. What have these home remedies done to Jackson?
(a) has aged him before his time
(b) made him insane
(c) created acidosis, or excess acidity in the body
(d) made him a drug addict

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the The Messenger Theory?

2. Now that Jackson is awake, what does he tell Hall about the baby?

3. What does Hall and Stone figure out when they hear the announcement about the gaskets?

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

5. What does the Wildfire group eat for breakfast?

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