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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mrs. Weller is outraged about _________________.
(a) Tom telling his sister about the death.
(b) Tom being told about the death.
(c) The DNA testing.
(d) The way her husband supposedly died.

2. What sort of field does the fugitive work in?
(a) Education.
(b) Retail.
(c) Security.
(d) Research.

3. Rick wants to prove that his wife is a(n) ______________.
(a) Unfit mother.
(b) Drug addict.
(c) Thief.
(d) Alcoholic.

4. Henry infused his DNA with that of a what?
(a) Chimpanzee.
(b) Dog.
(c) Parrot.
(d) Oranngutan.

5. What is Tom's mother's name?
(a) Audry.
(b) Emily.
(c) Aubry.
(d) Ellen.

Short Answer Questions

1. The doctor has been dealing with a company called ____________.

2. What is Marty Roberts' occupation?

3. Frank's daughter is worried because of the _________ that Frank has gotten recently?

4. Across town, Rick learns that his wife left town when she was ____________________.

5. When the coffin is open, it's discovered that _____________ is/are missing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the results of the meeting between Alex, Frank and the university lawyers. Do you agree or disagree with the lawyers and why?

2. How does a previous incident with Brad come up in this section?

3. Explain how Gail Bond's genetic experimentation on a gray parrot comes back to haunt her.

4. Explain Henry Kendall's reaction to the news of a talking orangutan in Sumatra.

5. Explain how the Levines are further identified, in Chapter 23 and what that could mean later, as things develop.

6. Brad Gordon is the inept security guard at BioGen. He only has the job because his uncle is Jack Watson, an investor in the company. Do you agree with Brad being given the job at BioGen or relatives being given jobs, in general, in real life?

7. Describe Josh's brother, Adam.

8. When Adam's behavior suddenly changes and he goes off drugs and gets a job, Josh tells their mother about the retrovirus Adam inhaled. Then, their mother asks Josh to send some of the retrovirus to a drug-addicted son of a friend. Do you agree with that request or Josh's reaction to it? Why or why not?

9. Henry Kendall learns that the blood he took to Roberts is human and that the DNA matches his own. Henry goes to the NIH lab in Bethesda where he was working on a transgenic chimpanzee four years ago when an encephalitis outbreak interrupted. Henry spends time with the chimpanzee, who is, for all intents and purposes, Henry's son, before learning it is to be destroyed. Henry decides to steal the chimpanzee from the lab and take it home, though he is not sure what he will do with him then. Do you feel that it was right for Henry to steal the Chimpanzee?

10. The book focuses on bio research, as is made clear in the prologue. What are some of the potential benefits of bio research?

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