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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 happens to the rat when deposited near the satellite?
(a) it becomes paralyzed
(b) it is dead within seconds
(c) it lays down and goes to sleep
(d) it runs around looking for food

2. When a training pilot crashes after flying above the Piedmont area, what do they find at the plane?
(a) the instrument panel was gone
(b) the pilot had left a note to his wife
(c) the pilot was too young to be flying
(d) all the new plastic polymer that replaced rubber in the plane has dissolved

3. What does Hall and Stone figure out when they hear the announcement about the gaskets?
(a) Andromeda is attacking the computer
(b) Andromeda doesn't want to be confined to the lab
(c) the mutated form of Andromeda is going to attack the glass
(d) the mutated form of Andromeda is only dangerous to rubber gaskets

4. What does the Wildfire group eat for breakfast?
(a) a glass of dark brown juice, which tastes like orange juice
(b) oatmeal with honey
(c) a large pill which is all the nutrients they need
(d) eggs, toast and bacon

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

Short Answer Questions

1. There is another way for Hall to reach a substation. What is it?

2. What will Hall wear to examine the two survivors of Piedmont?

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

4. What does Jackson do for his ulcer?

5. Where are the laboratories and equipment rooms that they will be using on level 5?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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