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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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) cooks aren't allowed on level 4 or 5
(d) there's too many people to figure out what to cook

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

9. What happens when Burton gives some live rats anti-coagulant to prevent blood clotting then exposes them?
(a) they lay down and go to sleep
(b) the rats live longer, but still succumb to the disease
(c) they bleed out of their noses
(d) they don't die when exposed to the disease

10. 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

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

12. Jackson tells Hall he has a medical problem. What is it?
(a) he says he has an old war wound
(b) he has an ulcer, which he has had for two years
(c) he says he just getting old
(d) he has thin blood

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

14. What does Stone do to help Burton in the autopsy room when he's been exposed to Andromeda?
(a) spraying the room with bleach
(b) coating the walls with antibiotics
(c) pumping oxygen into the room to inhibit the spread of Andromeda
(d) nothing, he doesn't know what to do

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the The Messenger Theory?

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

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

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

5. While dealing with Burton, Hall and Stone hear another emergency announcement by the computer. It is:

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