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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. After going to code red, what does Manchek do?
(a) calls the President of the United States
(b) hesitates before making his next move
(c) takes a helicopter to Piedmont
(d) calls out the National Guard

2. On the way to Wildfire, what does Dr. Leavitt tell Dr. Hall to do?
(a) make out his will
(b) take Leavitt's blood pressure
(c) to read the project file before arriving at Wildfire
(d) call his mother and tell her where he is

3. What is the population of Piedmont, Arizona?
(a) 2033
(b) 48
(c) 100
(d) 15

4. Why do the two men have radio-directional equipment on the van?
(a) to be able to track aircraft
(b) to triangulate the position of the Scoop satellite
(c) to find a good radio station
(d) to find the town of Piedmont

5. 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) calls for a TNT strike instead
(c) he orders it to be done as soon as Stone is out of Piedmont
(d) he doesn't know what directive 7-12 is

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the nature of all national crises prior to the scientific boom was?

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

3. How does Stone feel about Hall's appointment?

4. What does Hall do about his appointment to Wildfire?

5. What does their nighttime surveillance reveal?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. On level 1 what does Stone tell the men when he briefs them about the Wildfire lab?

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

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

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

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

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