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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 do the personnel in the lab have to do to go to level 5?
(a) strip off their clothes and ride to level five naked
(b) get on the elevator and push the button
(c) personnel are required to undergo stringent decontamination and quarantine procedures
(d) take a shower and put on scrubs

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 contact earth
(d) that alien species would be hostile

3. What is the first response to Mancheck's call to Wildfire?
(a) to call each scientist on the list
(b) to call the White House
(c) to shut down the electricity around Piedmont
(d) a top-secret cable is issued informing other military units

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

5. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?
(a) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify the fire department
(b) IN CASE OF FIRE -- Notify Division 87 -- Emergencies Only
(c) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify the FBI
(d) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify SECURITY OFFICER 37

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?

2. Where is Mission Control for Project Scoop located?

3. Dr. Stone heads to Piedmont with another scientist. Who is he?

4. What do Lt. Shawn and Pvt. Crane find in Piedmont?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Major Arthur Manchek.

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

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

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

5. Describe the Odd Man Hypothesis. Do you think it's a good idea?

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

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

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

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

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

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