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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. While dealing with Burton, Hall and Stone hear another emergency announcement by the computer. It is:
2. While running to the autopsy room, Hall notices that Leavitt appears to be in a trance. Why does he appear that way?
3. What the main hypothesis the men have about why Scoop fell out of orbit?
4. If the organism directly converts energy to matter with no waste what is it functioning like?
5. What happens as the men stare at the green substance attached to the meteor?
Short Essay Questions
1. Write about some of the mistakes the scientists made when dealing with Andromeda.
2. Describe the study Leavitt uses as the basis for his rule of 48.
3. Describe Dr. Hall's first meeting with Peter Jackson. What does Jackson look like? What does Hall do?
4. As Stone and Hall figure out the Ph situation, the warning bells go off. Why?
5. Why is uncontrolled bacterial growth is a frightening concept?
6. 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.
7. What does Hall realize about Andromeda when thinking about Jackson's acidosis?
8. What do the x-ray crystallography results show about Andromeda?
9. When Hall realizes why Jackson is alive, what does he figure out about the baby?
10. The scientist are not bad men. It would be easy to see them that way. How does the narrator see them? Or the reader?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Did this book hold your interest throughout? How? Why? If not, why? Describe what parts interested you the most and any parts you thought were boring. Did you foresee the end long before it came? How?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
The reader can hardly miss the irony that the government spent $22 million building a laboratory designed to protect humanity against the very biological weapons the government spent even more money importing from outer space. Do you believe the government has the right to develop any kind of weapon it can conceive? Do you believe there is a limit to what the military of one country can do to another? Who do you think should control that? What do you believe are the limits? What types of weapons do you think the government might be working on that you think should never be manufactured? Why?
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