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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 runs around looking for food
(b) it becomes paralyzed
(c) it is dead within seconds
(d) it lays down and goes to sleep

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

3. What happens as the men stare at the green substance attached to the meteor?
(a) it begins to emit light in a pattern
(b) it starts to hum
(c) it grows smaller
(d) it turns purple and grows right before their eyes

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

5. What is the men's theory about Andromeda and blood vessels?
(a) Andromeda doesn't live well in blood vessels
(b) Andromeda burrows in the blood vessels
(c) Andromeda strengthens blood vessels
(d) Andromeda attacks the blood vessel walls directly

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stone do when they find the message?

2. What does Hall do at the computer when he is in the room with his patients?

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

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

5. What does the Wildfire group eat for breakfast?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Manchek find about the wreck of the plane?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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?

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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