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

2. When the seal has been broken in the Autopsy room, who is in there?
(a) Dr. Burton
(b) Dr. Stone
(c) Dr. Leavitt
(d) Mark Hall

3. How many ligamine darts hits Hall before he gets to level 4?
(a) two
(b) one
(c) three
(d) six

4. What does Hall do at the computer when he is in the room with his patients?
(a) plays a card game
(b) tells it to give the patients a flu vaccination
(c) sets up a way to get real food
(d) uses it to order fifteen to twenty lab tests for the patients

5. What does Burton's tests determine about the dead bodies?
(a) the disease leaves after the body dies
(b) they're not contagious, only the air surrounding them transmits the disease
(c) they are disintegrating quickly
(d) the disease stays on the dead body, still contagious

Short Answer 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?

2. Now that Jackson is awake, what does he tell Hall about the baby?

3. What does Hall do as he finishes turning his key in the level 4 substation?

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

5. How will the scientist work on the satellite?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do you think Montaigne meant by the quote "Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves." in relationship to the behavior of the men at Wildfire?

3. 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.

4. Why is Mark Hall's reaction to the female computer voice important?

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

6. Write about the men of Wildfire and their motivations for finding the cure for Wildfire.

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

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

9. What do the x-ray crystallography results show about Andromeda?

10. When Hall realizes why Jackson is alive, what does he figure out about the baby?

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