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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. If one cell of E. coli could produce a supercolony equal in size and weight to the planet, why doesn't that happen?
(a) food and oxygen run out
(b) there's too many antibiotics in the world
(c) it's too fragile
(d) nature made it so it stops at a certain size

2. What does the Wildfire team believe about the origin of the Scoop contamination?
(a) that the contamination happened before the satellite left earth
(b) there is no contamination; nothing can live in space
(c) the contamination has earth germs that mutated
(d) they come to believe it is an alien life form

3. What does Jackson do for his ulcer?
(a) he drinks maalox
(b) he eats a gallon of vanilla ice cream every day
(c) he takes nearly a bottle of aspirin a day and sips from a can of Sterno
(d) he doesn't do anything

4. Why does an electron microscope work better than any other type of scope?
(a) it uses lasers to shine on the subject
(b) it has a bigger lens
(c) it uses magnetic fields rather than light rays to view and enlarge objects
(d) it uses electric current across the lens

5. What do they find out about the green substance and amino acids?
(a) it makes amino acids out of the air
(b) it makes its own amino acids
(c) it has no amino acids
(d) it shrinks in the presence of amino acids

Short Answer Questions

1. When Hall realizes the reason for Jackson's and the baby's survival what does he do?

2. How is the center core protected, level to level?

3. What does the team decide Hall has to find out?

4. While dealing with Burton, Hall and Stone hear another emergency announcement by the computer. It is:

5. On what former scientific belief did Leavitt base his rule of 48?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the study Leavitt uses as the basis for his rule of 48.

2. What is the real mission of Scoop? What do the scientist do when they find out?

3. How did the Scoop satellite end up on earth? What do the scientist think?

4. What does Hall realize about Andromeda when thinking about Jackson's acidosis?

5. Why is uncontrolled bacterial growth is a frightening concept?

6. Describe the crash scene of the military jet to which Major Manchek travels . What does it look like? What does he find?

7. Describe the first exploration of the satellite. What did the men do? What did they find?

8. As Stone and Hall figure out the Ph situation, the warning bells go off. Why?

9. Leavitt has a dream about a house. When he wakens he believes it has an answer to Andromeda. Describe the dream and his thoughts and reactions to the dream.

10. Write about some of the mistakes the scientists made when dealing with Andromeda.

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