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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 as soon as more gaskets are discovered to be damaged?
(a) they use caulk to seal off the areas
(b) they decide to evacuate
(c) they focus ultrviolet lights on the doors
(d) the self-destruct sequence begins

2. What does the team decide Hall has to find out?
(a) why the infant cries all the time
(b) what the old man and the infant have in common which protected them both from death
(c) how fast he can get to each substation
(d) how to cure Jackson's ulcer

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

4. What does the Wildfire team believe about the origin of the Scoop contamination?
(a) they come to believe it is an alien life form
(b) there is no contamination; nothing can live in space
(c) the contamination has earth germs that mutated
(d) that the contamination happened before the satellite left earth

5. What is the The Messenger Theory?
(a) that molecues talk to each other through light
(b) tiny organisms that grow into a complete life form capable of communicating
(c) that Morse code is effective
(d) that atoms communicate with other atoms to bind together

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the rat when deposited near the satellite?

2. What does Stone see when he turns on the scope?

3. What does Hall think made Jackson survive Andromeda?

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

5. Stone yells at Hall when the self-destruct is announced. What does he tell him?

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. What does Hall realize about Andromeda when thinking about Jackson's acidosis?

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. What kinds of animals are used in research? What do various animals do best? Why is the Black Norway Rat used most often in scientific experiments?

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

10. How did the Scoop satellite end up on earth? What do the scientist think?

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