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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Why does an electron microscope work better than any other type of scope?
(a) it uses magnetic fields rather than light rays to view and enlarge objects
(b) it uses lasers to shine on the subject
(c) it has a bigger lens
(d) it uses electric current across the lens

3. When the seal has been broken in the Autopsy room, who is in there?
(a) Dr. Burton
(b) Dr. Leavitt
(c) Dr. Stone
(d) Mark Hall

4. What will Hall wear to examine the two survivors of Piedmont?
(a) an astronaut's suit
(b) a full body glove
(c) his level 5 coveralls
(d) latex gloves and surgical mask

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

6. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does the Wildfire group eat for breakfast?
(a) a large pill which is all the nutrients they need
(b) oatmeal with honey
(c) eggs, toast and bacon
(d) a glass of dark brown juice, which tastes like orange juice

14. How many ligamine darts hits Hall before he gets to level 4?
(a) two
(b) one
(c) three
(d) six

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens as soon as more gaskets are discovered to be damaged?

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

3. What does Hall race back to the autopsy room to stop?

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

5. What does Jackson do for his ulcer?

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