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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 Jagger show Manchek on a conference call?
(a) a paper with TOP SECRET printed on it
(b) a red coded phone that connects to Wildfire
(c) he doesn't show them anything, they're on a phone
(d) the infrared film images of the town

2. What's the last thing Lt. Comcoe hears from the radio?
(a) two dogs barking and growling at each other
(b) Crane calling out in a high-pitched scream
(c) the man in the white robe talking to Shawn
(d) someone pounding on Lt. Shawn's van door

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

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

5. What do the white spots on Jagger's film indicate?
(a) human bodies, dead or alive
(b) that the camera picked up the flares on the ground
(c) solar flares occuring
(d) that water fell on the film

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the two men have radio-directional equipment on the van?

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

4. How does the President respond to Stone's request for a directive 7-12?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Write a description of Piedmont from Lieutenant Shawn's perspective looking from above.

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. Describe Dr. Burton as he rides in the helicopter with Dr. Stone going to Piedmont. Tell a little of his background in science.

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