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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 is Brent's assistant?

2. What gene does Singer tell Carson has already been isolated?

3. What does Susana want fixed?

4. What do they discover about this presentation of X-FLU?

5. How does Toni Wheeler advise Levine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who takes Guy on his orientation of the Mount Dragon facility and what area is avoided?

2. What does Gil Teece do when he arrives?

3. What does Nye do that upsets Carson and how does Carson deal with it?

4. Why does Levine so adamantly refuse to renew the patent he and Brent co-author?

5. How does Brent feel about Rodney?

6. Why is Guy Carson excited to be given the opportunity to work at Mount Dragon?

7. What is Singer's response to the formal complaint filed by Rosalind against Guy?

8. Who does Carson run into when he climbs the cylinder that Mount Dragon is named for, and what is revealed?

9. What happens to Vanderwagon at dinner?

10. What is significant about the satellite photos that Dr. Levine shows his lecture audience?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens after the game Brent and Charles play that creates an immediate bond between them? Why is Brent fearful, and how does Charles take control of the situation? What arrangements do they make together to ensure that their accident is not one that is a worldwide catastrophe? What is their last act of philanthropy? What is Brent's last request to Charles and what does Charles have to do in order to comply?

Essay Topic 2

How does Levine reveal information to a televised audience after he has been warned not to do so? What human quality does he rely on to help him to reveal facts to the audience? Does this absolve him of responsibility in the eyes of the law? Would this hold up in light of the pending lawsuit against him? Knowing the nature of people, could Levine be sure that his method of revelation would work?

Essay Topic 3

How does Carson manage to elude Nye when they are in the desert? What skills does Carson rely on that were passed down to him, and to whom does he owe his survival to? What actions are directly related to conversations with family in the past? How many times does Carson manage to elude, distract or slow down Nye in his attempt to catch and kill Carson and de Vaca and what methods does he employ to do so? What chances of survival would they have had without his familial knowledge?

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