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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 the spectrometer show about the composition of the Andromeda strain?

2. There is a lab rat in the room with Dr. Burton, what do Stone and Hall notice about it?

3. If the organism directly converts energy to matter with no waste what is it functioning like?

4. What does Hall think made Jackson survive Andromeda?

5. What will Hall wear to examine the two survivors of Piedmont?

Short Essay Questions

1. Write about some of the mistakes the scientists made when dealing with Andromeda.

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

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

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

5. Write about the men of Wildfire and their motivations for finding the cure for Wildfire.

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

7. What do the x-ray crystallography results show about Andromeda?

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

10. When he knows about Andromeda's weakness what action does Hall take with Dr. Burton in the biopsy lab?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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