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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Burton is still alive, but breathing fast from fear what does Hall do?
(a) he tells Stone he's going to the men's room
(b) Hall returns to his lab and stares at Peter Jackson through the glass
(c) he relaxes a moment and sits down
(d) he leaves to go check on Leavitt

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Jackson say to Hall when Hall wakes him?
(a) tells him he doesn't need a doctor
(b) tells him the baby's mother's name
(c) tells him to go away
(d) he doesn't talk to him

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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) cry
(c) call off the directive 7-12 to nuke Piedmont
(d) start screaming at each other

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stone do to help Burton in the autopsy room when he's been exposed to Andromeda?

2. How many ligamine darts hits Hall before he gets to level 4?

3. Based on the a Millipore filter size what does Burton conclude?

4. What does Hall think about Burton's fear?

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

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