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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hall think made Jackson survive Andromeda?
(a) Andromeda doesn't like asprin
(b) his bleeding ulcer made it too hard for the blood to coagulate
(c) excessive acid in the bloodstream might prevent Andromeda from growing
(d) he's a mean, old man

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

4. Why does Hall think the baby's survival and the birds' survival are related?
(a) their rapid breathing
(b) they are both hungry all the time
(c) they have small bodies
(d) they both have big mouths

5. In communications, why does Captain Morris check for computer malfunctions?
(a) it's time for him to go off shift
(b) he's suspicious, because the bell has not rung for some time to signal an incoming communication
(c) he thought he heard the bell ring
(d) he's just doing his job

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Hall do at the computer when he is in the room with his patients?
(a) tells it to give the patients a flu vaccination
(b) sets up a way to get real food
(c) uses it to order fifteen to twenty lab tests for the patients
(d) plays a card game

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

13. There is a lab rat in the room with Dr. Burton, what do Stone and Hall notice about it?
(a) it's still alive
(b) it's dead
(c) it has blood running from its nose
(d) it's white instead of black

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. If one cell of E. coli could produce a supercolony equal in size and weight to the planet, why doesn't that happen?

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

4. How often do the doctors get together to discuss results?

5. What does Hall and Stone figure out when they hear the announcement about the gaskets?

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