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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. How long will the Level 5 Lab be closed?

2. How long after the inoculations does the first chimpanzee die?

3. Where is Novo-Druzhina?

4. Who is the founder of GeneDyne?

5. Who visits Levine the next morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Carson learn from Rosalind about his attempts to fix X-FLU? How does Rosalind's attitude come back to haunt her?

2. How does Brent get even with Levine for televising the accident details from Mount Dragon?

3. What background about Levine and Scopes does Singer share with Carson?

4. Teece conducts his interviews in a manner similar to Sherlock Holmes. In which way is that statement true?

5. Who assumes control after Rosalind is exposed and why?

6. What does Carson see Nye doing and what is suspicious about his behavior?

7. How does Brent feel about Rodney?

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

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

10. What does Singer reveal to Carson and why is Carson worried about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where do Guy and Susana go in the autumn? What is significant about this trip? When they stop at Mount Dragon, their conversation surrounds their colleagues. What does Guy reveal to Susana regarding the PurBlood test group? How does she react to his expression of empathy? What is their destination? Why does Susana urge Guy to take this trip? What is it that is so important to her?

Essay Topic 2

The character named Mime in this story suffers from a disease that is a direct result of drugs taken by his mother while she carried him. What is the physical ailment he suffers from? What did his mother take and why did she take it? How can a parallel be drawn from this example to the current battle that Charles Levine is fighting to stop the research being done at Mount Dragon?

Essay Topic 3

What prompts Susana to visit with Pavel? She goes there in the hopes that he can fix a problem for her, and in the process learns about something that will become a turning point for her. What does she learn, and how does she employ it later? Why isn't this common knowledge? If the company saw no need for this feature, why didn't they disconnect it entirely? Is there a chance that the company understood the risks of the research they were doing and if so, why would they have kept it a secret?

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