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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. What does the team in the desert use to communicate?
(a) Cell phones.
(b) Hand radios.
(c) Flashlights.
(d) Headsets.

2. Why is creating assemblers complicated?
(a) They are too expensive to make.
(b) They are inexpensive to make.
(c) They are simple to make.
(d) They are very complex to make.

3. Why can the swarm be seen under UV lighting?
(a) The swarm was built to hide.
(b) The swarm was built to glow in the dark.
(c) The swarm was built with internal lights.
(d) The swarm was built with markers.

4. Who is in the room with the giant structure in the main fabrication building when Jack and Ricky arrive?
(a) Julia and Eric.
(b) Rosie and Vince.
(c) David and Rosie.
(d) Charley and Julia.

5. What does Jack think it is safest for the group to do in the presence of the swarm?
(a) Hide under a car.
(b) Split up.
(c) Jump in the air.
(d) Stick together.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many volts of electricity are used to cool the doughnut-like structure Ricky shows Jack?

2. Which character is the first to die to the swarm?

3. What objects does Julia use to teach the swarm?

4. Who shares Jack's hiding spot with him when the team gets stuck outside the isotope storage unit?

5. What does the virus liquid that Jack proposes they drink look like?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jack feel when he sees the swarms hunting in the desert for the first time?

2. Whom do Jack and Mae see on the security tape? What are the people on the tape doing?

3. Why does Jack suggest they drink the brown sludge that comes from the bacteria tanks?

4. Why are the scientists unable to collect the units when they become deactivated at night when there is no sun to power them?

5. Why is the team safest in the desert when the wind speed is high?

6. How is Mae able to cover up the truth from Julia when she comes in the room and asks what she and Jack are doing on Day 7?

7. Why does the team in the desert take refuge in the storage unit?

8. How is the manufactured swarm able to fly?

9. How does Jack save Charley and himself and get back to the compound before the swarm can catch them?

10. Why does Jack decide to go back out into the desert once the sun goes down on Day 6?

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