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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. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?

2. What do the personnel in the lab have to do to go to level 5?

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

4. Dr. Stone heads to Piedmont with another scientist. Who is he?

5. How does Burton appear to Stone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the two things Stone and Burton knew when they landed in Piedmont?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Explain why the government agreed to extend funds and build Wildfire?

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

When considering all the technology in this book, do you believe humans are ready to have such technology? Do you think humans are civilized enough to go into space? Why do you think we have not flown people to another planet yet?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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