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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 did English biophysicist, J.J. Merrick, discuss at a biological symposium?
(a) whether humans should go into space
(b) the probabilities of first contact with an alien species
(c) whether biology was a science worth pursuing
(d) the improbability of life in space

2. What does Hall believe about the possibility of a real Wildfire crisis?
(a) he can't think of any reason he would be helpful in that type of work
(b) he doesn't believe any bacteria could survive space
(c) he believes the project is theoretical and never expects to be called
(d) he doesn't think the US is capable of space travel

3. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?
(a) he's an expert on zero gravity effect on growth of plants
(b) he experiments with human DNA
(c) he studies the effects of sunlight on viruses
(d) studying the effects of bacteria on human tissues

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

5. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?
(a) the town of Piedmont, Arizona
(b) a couple of bears
(c) his brother's backyard
(d) two purple vans with peace symbols

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Manchek contact Wildfire?

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

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

4. In what configuration is the Wildfire lab built?

5. What did Merrick theorize?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is it about the narration, the characters and the plot thus revealed that makes you want to read further?

6. What does Manchek do after reviewing the intelligence with Jagger?

7. Describe what happens at Dr. Stone's house when he's called for Wildfire.

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

9. Describe Major Arthur Manchek.

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

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