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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 think made Jackson survive Andromeda?
2. Why does Stone feel they have plenty of time to solve the mystery of the satellite's contamination?
3. What is the men's theory about Andromeda and blood vessels?
4. When the seal has been broken in the Autopsy room, who is in there?
5. Too whom does the female voice on the intercom belong?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Andromeda infect the town of Piedmont?
2. The scientist are not bad men. It would be easy to see them that way. How does the narrator see them? Or the reader?
3. When Hall realizes why Jackson is alive, what does he figure out about the baby?
4. Write about some of the mistakes the scientists made when dealing with Andromeda.
5. Describe the first exploration of the satellite. What did the men do? What did they find?
6. 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?
7. As Stone and Hall figure out the Ph situation, the warning bells go off. Why?
8. Write about the men of Wildfire and their motivations for finding the cure for Wildfire.
9. What is the real mission of Scoop? What do the scientist do when they find out?
10. Describe the crash scene of the military jet to which Major Manchek travels . What does it look like? What does he find?
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
What do you believe this book is saying about scientific advancements? Do you agree with that view point?
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