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

2. What briefing does Manchek think about when reviewing what Jagger has told him?
(a) about the briefing on how to call the President
(b) about what to do in a state of emergency
(c) the briefing about space travel
(d) the briefing he received on Project Wildfire

3. How does Leavitt feel about Wildfire?
(a) he's indifferent
(b) he is fascinated with Wildfire and excited to be working on it
(c) he misses his wife and wishes he hadn't been called
(d) he's skeptical that it is necessary

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Samuel "Gunner" Wilson, pilot of the Scavenger plane see as he flies over Piedmont?

2. What is the first response to Mancheck's call to Wildfire?

3. What does Major Arthur Manchek order when he hears of the radio silence at Piedmont?

4. What were the first two scientific crises in history?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. Already, by chapter 4, the reader can tell this is a technical narrative. How does the author handle the technology?

5. Describe Major Arthur Manchek.

6. What is Jagger's job and what does he say about the reconnoiter photos and what they show.

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

8. 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?

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

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

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