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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. Who is walking among the bodies?
(a) an old man in a white robe
(b) a couple of house cats
(c) several dogs pulling on the clothes
(d) the town doctor

2. What did Merrick theorize?
(a) that alien species could not exist
(b) the first alien species encountered by man would be a bacterium
(c) that alien species would be hostile
(d) that alien species would contact earth

3. How does Burton appear to Stone?
(a) a sharp dresser and compulsive individual
(b) an absent-minded professor with sloppy clothes and untidy hair
(c) a monk in brown robes
(d) a young football player

4. What does the narrator say the nature of all national crises prior to the scientific boom was?
(a) all national crises were political in nature
(b) all national crises were economical in nature
(c) all national crises were educational in nature
(d) all national crises were medical in nature

5. What concerned Merrick about alien encounters?
(a) that they have been kidnapping humans for years
(b) the possibility of a plague resulting from an alien bacteria
(c) that their technology would be much better than ours
(d) that they would be hostile and superior

Short Answer Questions

1. When they arrive at Piedmont, what do Burton and Stone do first?

2. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?

3. What is Manchek asked to do when he calls to alert Wildfire?

4. What kind of theory did noted scholar, Alfred Pockran, have about national crises?

5. When over the town, Stone and Burton see buzzards eating the bodies. What do they do?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Describe the chain of events, in Stone's mind that has lead up to project Wildfire.

3. The author states his theme that crises are made up of human personalities. How does he introduce his characters?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe Major Arthur Manchek.

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

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