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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. What does Lt. Comroe at mission control do when told about the bodies?

2. What does Lt. Shawn do as he approaches Piedmont?

3. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?

4. What does Jagger show Manchek on a conference call?

5. What did English biophysicist, J.J. Merrick, discuss at a biological symposium?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Already, by chapter 4, the reader can tell this is a technical narrative. How does the author handle the technology?

4. Describe what the Wildfire lab looks like on first approach.

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

6. Write about the procedure the three planes used to look at and take pictures of Piedmont and the capability of the scavenger spy plane.

7. Describe the chain of events, in Stone's mind that has lead up to project Wildfire.

8. In Chapter 3, the narrator discusses the nature of crisis from a historical perspective. What does he have to say about the nature of crisis?

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

10. What are the protocols Leavitt personally put into place for Wildfire?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Did this book hold your interest throughout? How? Why? If not, why? Describe what parts interested you the most and any parts you thought were boring. Did you foresee the end long before it came? How?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe the atmosphere inside the Wildfire lab. Did the men like each other? With the work they are doing does it matter if they like each other? How did they treat the staff? How did they feel about Wildfire?

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