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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's the last thing Lt. Comcoe hears from the radio?

2. What do they find when they cut open a victim's wrist?

3. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?

4. Who is walking among the bodies?

5. Where is Mission Control for Project Scoop located?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Major Arthur Manchek.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Considering the technological advancements made in the past fifty years, why do you think there are people still starving in the world? Do you think better use could be made of the human mind than technological advances?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

The process of "decontaminating" the body is almost inherently self-hating. It is as if Jeremy Stone, who designed the Wildfire decontamination process, believes human bodies are loathsome and dirty. Visualize a world where everyone thought this. How would humans interact? What type of emotions do you think humans would develop? How would reproduction occur? If you stepped into a world in the future where the human body was considered loathsome and dirty, where no one would get close to another person, how would you feel? What would you do?

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