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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 does Hall race back to the autopsy room to stop?
(a) the pumping of oxygen into the room
(b) Leavitt from having another seizure
(c) Stone from opening the door of the autopsy room
(d) Burton from dying

2. For what reason do the men decide some of the Piedmont people seemed to have committed suicide?
(a) brain hemorrhages are capable of causing insanity as well as death
(b) they were too afraid to die of Andromeda
(c) they couldn't stand seeing all their family and friends dead
(d) Andromeda told them to do it

3. How is the center core protected, level to level?
(a) with guard dogs
(b) with electrical shocks
(c) sensors track movement in the core, and shoot ligamine darts at any moving target
(d) with laser beams

4. If the organism directly converts energy to matter with no waste what is it functioning like?
(a) a human body cell
(b) a virus
(c) like a highly efficient atomic reactor
(d) a generator

5. What does Hall do as he finishes turning his key in the level 4 substation?
(a) he calmly returns to level 5
(b) he slides down the wall unconscious
(c) he jumps up and down and sings
(d) he grabs a nurse and kisses her

Short Answer Questions

1. Burton's tests reveal that clotting begins in the lungs then progresses to the brain. What does that mean to him?

2. What does the Wildfire team believe about the origin of the Scoop contamination?

3. Why does Hall think the baby's survival and the birds' survival are related?

4. What type of waste products did Andromeda produce?

5. What does the answering service supervisor tell Hall when he keeps pushing the red button by his bed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. How did Andromeda infect the town of Piedmont?

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. In the conference room in Chapter 12, Dr. Stone talks about a man named Rudolph Karp. Who is Karp? Why does Stone discuss him?

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

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

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