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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 will the scientist work on the satellite?

2. What do they do when they realize a nuclear detonation in Piedmont will provide Andromeda with a limitless supply of energy?

3. Why are black Norway rats used in labs?

4. When Hall realizes the reason for Jackson's and the baby's survival what does he do?

5. What happens to the rat when deposited near the satellite?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dr. Hall's first meeting with Peter Jackson. What does Jackson look like? What does Hall do?

2. After knowing about the baby's blood pH and Jackson's blood pH, what does Hall figure out?

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

4. How did Andromeda infect the town of Piedmont?

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

6. Describe the study Leavitt uses as the basis for his rule of 48.

7. Write about some of the mistakes the scientists made when dealing with 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. The scientist are not bad men. It would be easy to see them that way. How does the narrator see them? Or the reader?

10. As Stone and Hall figure out the Ph situation, the warning bells go off. Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Dr. Hall. Would you like him if you met him? Why or why not?

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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