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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what configuration is the Wildfire lab built?
(a) five underground levels connected by a central core
(b) in a pentagon, like the one in Washington
(c) as a skyscraper
(d) it looks like a large ranch

2. What does the Department of Defense do about Stone's proposal?
(a) allocates $22 million for construction of a special, isolated laboratory
(b) refuses to help
(c) says the military can take care of any aliens
(d) tells Stone he'll have to join the military to do anything

3. Where is Mission Control for Project Scoop located?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Ft. Sill, Oklahoma
(c) Vandenberg Airforce Base
(d) NASA headquarters in Birmingham

4. What's the last thing Lt. Comcoe hears from the radio?
(a) Crane calling out in a high-pitched scream
(b) two dogs barking and growling at each other
(c) someone pounding on Lt. Shawn's van door
(d) the man in the white robe talking to Shawn

5. What does Project Wildfire do?
(a) investigates NASA projects
(b) investigates any epidepic of Asian origin
(c) investigates possible extraterrestrial life forms introduced to earth by returning spacecraft.
(d) investigates forest fires in America

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the white spots on Jagger's film indicate?

2. What does Hall believe about the possibility of a real Wildfire crisis?

3. What does Private Crane do for Lt. Shawn?

4. What does the narrator say about the men of Wildfire that will affect the outcome of the work?

5. Why was Hall, a surgeon, chosen for the team?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Lieutenant Roger Shawn doing at the beginning of the book?

2. What are the protocols Leavitt personally put into place for Wildfire?

3. Describe Dr. Burton as he rides in the helicopter with Dr. Stone going to Piedmont. Tell a little of his background in science.

4. Describe what the Wildfire lab looks like on first approach.

5. Write about the procedure the three planes used to look at and take pictures of Piedmont and the capability of the scavenger spy plane.

6. What were the two things Stone and Burton knew when they landed in Piedmont?

7. In Chapter 3, the narrator discusses the nature of crisis from a historical perspective. What does he have to say about the nature of crisis?

8. Why does Stone believe the Wildfire lab has "the capability to deal with an unknown biologic agent."?

9. Explain why the government agreed to extend funds and build Wildfire?

10. Write about the first pages of the book and what the author does to grab the reader's attention.

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