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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What the main hypothesis the men have about why Scoop fell out of orbit?
(a) its batteries ran out
(b) the Russians shot it down
(c) it was at the end of its allocated usefulness
(d) the satellite hit something in its path

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

6. Why does Stone feel they have plenty of time to solve the mystery of the satellite's contamination?
(a) it's only been a couple days
(b) with Piedmont nuked there is no danger to the outside
(c) nothing bad has happened so far
(d) the President said to take their time

7. What is the The Messenger Theory?
(a) tiny organisms that grow into a complete life form capable of communicating
(b) that molecues talk to each other through light
(c) that atoms communicate with other atoms to bind together
(d) that Morse code is effective

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

9. If the organism directly converts energy to matter with no waste what is it functioning like?
(a) like a highly efficient atomic reactor
(b) a virus
(c) a generator
(d) a human body cell

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

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

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

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

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

15. Why is the center core protected?
(a) to bar people from being in it
(b) so a large bacteria can't float through it
(c) to prevent potentially contaminated lab animals from escaping
(d) so terrorist can't get through it

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens as the men stare at the green substance attached to the meteor?

2. What's the first test Burton does on the two dead lab animals?

3. What message have the men received without their knowledge, that they find by accident?

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

5. What does the Wildfire group eat for breakfast?

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