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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. What does Hall do about his appointment to Wildfire?
(a) he asks for all the information so he can keep abreast of new developments
(b) he demands more money than the government is offering
(c) he demands to appoint a friend of his to the project
(d) nothing, he has never taken his commitment to Wildfire seriously

2. What do the personnel in the lab have to do to go to level 5?
(a) personnel are required to undergo stringent decontamination and quarantine procedures
(b) take a shower and put on scrubs
(c) strip off their clothes and ride to level five naked
(d) get on the elevator and push the button

3. What does Stone ask Manchek to call for to take care of the danger at Piedmont?
(a) a load of pesticides to spray on Piedmont
(b) the National Guard
(c) a thousand ultraviolet lights
(d) a limited thermo-nuclear strike to sanitize the area

4. How does the President respond to Stone's request for a directive 7-12?
(a) decides to postpone Manchek's request for forty-eight hours
(b) he doesn't know what directive 7-12 is
(c) he orders it to be done as soon as Stone is out of Piedmont
(d) calls for a TNT strike instead

5. In Delta sector on Level I, a man sits before a giant communications console. What is his job?
(a) to take messages from the men's families
(b) to make sure no unauthorized person enters
(c) to hit the emergency button if a virus gets out
(d) to monitor all incoming communications and inform the Wildfire team of any important developments

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the population of Piedmont, Arizona?

2. How does Manchek contact Wildfire?

3. What do they see in the sky over Piedmont?

4. What spurred significant advances in biological science?

5. What is Caper One?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the Odd Man Hypothesis. Do you think it's a good idea?

5. What decontamination processes do the men go through on Level 2, 3 and 4?

6. Describe Major Arthur Manchek.

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. How is Wildfire put into action by Manchek's phone call?

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

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

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