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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 Hall and Stone figure out when they hear the announcement about the gaskets?
2. Why does an electron microscope work better than any other type of scope?
3. Too whom does the female voice on the intercom belong?
4. What does Hall do at the computer when he is in the room with his patients?
5. What happens when Burton gives some live rats anti-coagulant to prevent blood clotting then exposes them?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Hall finally find out about Leavitt's epilepsy and what does he do about it?
2. 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?
3. Describe the study Leavitt uses as the basis for his rule of 48.
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. Write about some of the mistakes the scientists made when dealing with Andromeda.
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 does Hall realize about Andromeda when thinking about Jackson's acidosis?
8. After knowing about the baby's blood pH and Jackson's blood pH, what does Hall figure out?
9. In the conference room in Chapter 12, Dr. Stone talks about a man named Rudolph Karp. Who is Karp? Why does Stone discuss him?
10. When Hall realizes why Jackson is alive, what does he figure out about the baby?
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
What do you think is the meaning of this phrase: "Especially in the United States, consumers decide what technology is worthy of purchase." How does your life illustrate that idea? Do you think the idea would be meaningless in a much more technologically-lower country? 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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