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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. Who wakes Mark Hall up his first morning at the Wildfire lab?
2. What happens as soon as more gaskets are discovered to be damaged?
3. What happens when Robertson informs them of the Phantom crash team's discovery of the depolymerized polymer and the fleshless bone?
4. Too whom does the female voice on the intercom belong?
5. On what former scientific belief did Leavitt base his rule of 48?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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.
2. What do the x-ray crystallography results show about Andromeda?
3. Write about some of the mistakes the scientists made when dealing with Andromeda.
4. How did the Scoop satellite end up on earth? What do the scientist think?
5. The scientist are not bad men. It would be easy to see them that way. How does the narrator see them? Or the reader?
6. As Stone and Hall figure out the Ph situation, the warning bells go off. Why?
7. Why is Mark Hall's reaction to the female computer voice important?
8. What does Hall realize about Andromeda when thinking about Jackson's acidosis?
9. 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?
10. In the conference room in Chapter 12, Dr. Stone talks about a man named Rudolph Karp. Who is Karp? Why does Stone discuss him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Dr. Burton. Do you think he made too many mistakes to stay on the Wildfire team? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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