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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What happens when Hall runs to the door?
(a) he gets his arm caught in the sliding door
(b) he slips, falls and breaks his ankle
(c) it's too late; he is sealed in, away from the substations
(d) he gets out and runs to the substation down the hall

3. What happens as the men stare at the green substance attached to the meteor?
(a) it begins to emit light in a pattern
(b) it grows smaller
(c) it turns purple and grows right before their eyes
(d) it starts to hum

4. Now that Jackson is awake, what does he tell Hall about the baby?
(a) baby Jamie cries constantly
(b) that he was two months early
(c) that he was a twin, but the other one died
(d) that he was sick last week

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

6. How often do the doctors get together to discuss results?
(a) they never get together, each man is responsible for his own area
(b) every day
(c) every twelve hours
(d) once every four hours

7. Who wakes Mark Hall up his first morning at the Wildfire lab?
(a) Dr. Stone calls him on the phone
(b) a seductive, female voice
(c) an alarm clock he set the previous night
(d) a maid comes in to clean the room

8. What does the team decide Hall has to find out?
(a) how fast he can get to each substation
(b) how to cure Jackson's ulcer
(c) why the infant cries all the time
(d) what the old man and the infant have in common which protected them both from death

9. What does the spectrometer show about the composition of the Andromeda strain?
(a) it has carbon and silicon in it
(b) it resembles earthly organic life
(c) it is not alive
(d) it's radioactive

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

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

12. While dealing with Burton, Hall and Stone hear another emergency announcement by the computer. It is:
(a) The gasket seals in three other sections have failed
(b) a nuclear bomb was dropped on Piedmont
(c) Leavitt is having another seizure
(d) Andromeda is now in level 1

13. What happens to the men's attitude now that they know directive 7-12 was not invoked?
(a) they're happy
(b) they're relieved
(c) they are confident
(d) they're under extreme pressure

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

15. What does Hall and Stone figure out when they hear the announcement about the gaskets?
(a) Andromeda is attacking the computer
(b) Andromeda doesn't want to be confined to the lab
(c) the mutated form of Andromeda is going to attack the glass
(d) the mutated form of Andromeda is only dangerous to rubber gaskets

Short Answer Questions

1. What the main hypothesis the men have about why Scoop fell out of orbit?

2. Why isn't normal food available at the lab?

3. Why does Stone feel they have plenty of time to solve the mystery of the satellite's contamination?

4. There is a lab rat in the room with Dr. Burton, what do Stone and Hall notice about it?

5. What does Jackson do for his ulcer?

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