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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 did Stone and Leavitt find in the satellite?
2. Where are the laboratories and equipment rooms that they will be using on level 5?
3. Why does Stone feel they have plenty of time to solve the mystery of the satellite's contamination?
4. Why isn't normal food available at the lab?
5. What does the answering service supervisor tell Hall when he keeps pushing the red button by his bed?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Mark Hall's reaction to the female computer voice important?
2. Leavitt has a dream about a house. When he wakens he believes it has an answer to Andromeda. Describe the dream and his thoughts and reactions to the dream.
3. 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?
4. How did Andromeda infect the town of Piedmont?
5. Describe the study Leavitt uses as the basis for his rule of 48.
6. When he knows about Andromeda's weakness what action does Hall take with Dr. Burton in the biopsy lab?
7. 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?
8. What is the real mission of Scoop? What do the scientist do when they find out?
9. Describe the crash scene of the military jet to which Major Manchek travels . What does it look like? What does he find?
10. After knowing about the baby's blood pH and Jackson's blood pH, what does Hall figure out?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In this book the government had several "top secret" projects of which few of its citizens were knowledgeable. Do you think this is okay for the government to do? Do you believe that the government should keep secrets from the people? Why or why not? Do you think the government should have first access to all technology? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Considering the technological advancements made in the past fifty years, why do you think there are people still starving in the world? Do you think better use could be made of the human mind than technological advances?
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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