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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is walking among the bodies?

2. How does the President respond to Stone's request for a directive 7-12?

3. What does the Department of Defense do about Stone's proposal?

4. Who do they find alive in the town?

5. What is Project Wildfire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it about the narration, the characters and the plot thus revealed that makes you want to read further?

2. Describe what happens at Dr. Stone's house when he's called for Wildfire.

3. Write about the narrator. What is his purpose? How is his purpose carried out?

4. Write a description of Piedmont from Lieutenant Shawn's perspective looking from above.

5. The author states his theme that crises are made up of human personalities. How does he introduce his characters?

6. What decontamination processes do the men go through on Level 2, 3 and 4?

7. How is Wildfire put into action by Manchek's phone call?

8. On level 1 what does Stone tell the men when he briefs them about the Wildfire lab?

9. Why does Stone believe the Wildfire lab has "the capability to deal with an unknown biologic agent."?

10. What is Jagger's job and what does he say about the reconnoiter photos and what they show.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The reader can hardly miss the irony that the government spent $22 million building a laboratory designed to protect humanity against the very biological weapons the government spent even more money importing from outer space. Do you believe the government has the right to develop any kind of weapon it can conceive? Do you believe there is a limit to what the military of one country can do to another? Who do you think should control that? What do you believe are the limits? What types of weapons do you think the government might be working on that you think should never be manufactured? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Describe all the objects in your home and their uses that were invented in the past thirty years. Do you think life would be difficult without them? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

One theme explored in this book relates to the rising fear in the mid-twentieth century that mankind would become slaves to technology. Do you think this is possible? Why? Give examples of what you believe illustrates this fear. Do you believe you've become a slave to technology in your own life? How? Why?

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