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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. 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

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

3. Who is Major Arthur Manchek?
(a) advisor to the president on the Scoop project
(b) Chief Duty Officer and man in charge of all Scoop Project activities
(c) the air force officer who flew a jet over Piedmont
(d) the man who came up with the Wildfire idea

4. What does Private Crane do for Lt. Shawn?
(a) he is Lt. Shawn's electronics technician
(b) cooks his meals
(c) drives the van
(d) nothing, there is no Private Crane

5. What is Burton and Stone's working hypothesis about the killer in Piedmont?
(a) it doesn't seem to affect dogs
(b) the agent must have transmitted itself through the air
(c) it works very slowly
(d) it is passed by contact with an infected individual

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jagger show Manchek on a conference call?

2. What is Dr. Stone doing when the military shows up at his door?

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

4. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?

5. What does Dr. Hall notice about Dr. Leavitt as they get in the sedan that was sent for them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Explain why the government agreed to extend funds and build Wildfire?

9. Describe Major Arthur Manchek.

10. 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?

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