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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 will Hall wear to examine the two survivors of Piedmont?
(a) latex gloves and surgical mask
(b) a full body glove
(c) an astronaut's suit
(d) his level 5 coveralls

2. What's the first test Burton does on the two dead lab animals?
(a) vector experiments to determine how the mysterious disease is transmitted
(b) a blood test
(c) breathing test to make sure they're dead
(d) a nerve reflex test

3. There is another way for Hall to reach a substation. What is it?
(a) going up the outside of the lab
(b) going through the ventilation shafts
(c) climbing to another level through the central core
(d) taking an elevator to level 4

4. There is a lab rat in the room with Dr. Burton, what do Stone and Hall notice about it?
(a) it's white instead of black
(b) it's still alive
(c) it's dead
(d) it has blood running from its nose

5. What does Stone do when they find the message?
(a) shruggs his shoulders and quotes politics
(b) calls the president's advisor to try to talk him into initiating directive 7-12 immediately
(c) asks the others what they should do
(d) rips it up and throws it in the trash

Short Answer Questions

1. When Burton is still alive, but breathing fast from fear what does Hall do?

2. When the seal has been broken in the Autopsy room, who is in there?

3. What happens to the men's attitude now that they know directive 7-12 was not invoked?

4. What does the spectrometer show about the composition of the Andromeda strain?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. The scientist are not bad men. It would be easy to see them that way. How does the narrator see them? Or the reader?

2. 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.

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

4. How did Andromeda infect the town of Piedmont?

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

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

7. Describe Dr. Hall's first meeting with Peter Jackson. What does Jackson look like? What does Hall do?

8. When he knows about Andromeda's weakness what action does Hall take with Dr. Burton in the biopsy lab?

9. After knowing about the baby's blood pH and Jackson's blood pH, what does Hall figure out?

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

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