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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. When Burton is still alive, but breathing fast from fear what does Hall do?
2. Too whom does the female voice on the intercom belong?
3. On what former scientific belief did Leavitt base his rule of 48?
4. What's the first test Burton does on the two dead lab animals?
5. Why are black Norway rats used in labs?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the real mission of Scoop? What do the scientist do when they find out?
2. How does Hall finally find out about Leavitt's epilepsy and what does he do about it?
3. What does Hall realize about Andromeda when thinking about Jackson's acidosis?
4. What do you think Montaigne meant by the quote "Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves." in relationship to the behavior of the men at Wildfire?
5. When Hall realizes why Jackson is alive, what does he figure out about the baby?
6. What do the x-ray crystallography results show about Andromeda?
7. The scientist are not bad men. It would be easy to see them that way. How does the narrator see them? Or the reader?
8. Why is Mark Hall's reaction to the female computer voice important?
9. As Stone and Hall figure out the Ph situation, the warning bells go off. Why?
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
Do you think the Andromeda Strain was aimed at humans? Why or why not.
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 folly of trusting automated processing above human supervision is first shown by the printer jam early in the book, and yet many of our systems, from communications to financial are automated or at least depend heavily upon computers and other machines. Do you think it's reasonable for humans to rely so heavily upon "machines?" Describe the advantages and disadvantages of such a dependence.
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