View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Burton is still alive, but breathing fast from fear what does Hall do?
(a) Hall returns to his lab and stares at Peter Jackson through the glass
(b) he tells Stone he's going to the men's room
(c) he relaxes a moment and sits down
(d) he leaves to go check on Leavitt

2. Why was Hall, a surgeon, chosen for the team?
(a) because he had a great personality
(b) because they needed one medical doctor
(c) officials who believe in The Odd Man Hypothesis wanted him
(d) because they needed one scientist who wasn't married

3. If one cell of E. coli could produce a supercolony equal in size and weight to the planet, why doesn't that happen?
(a) food and oxygen run out
(b) nature made it so it stops at a certain size
(c) it's too fragile
(d) there's too many antibiotics in the world

4. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?
(a) his brother's backyard
(b) a couple of bears
(c) the town of Piedmont, Arizona
(d) two purple vans with peace symbols

5. For what reason do the men decide some of the Piedmont people seemed to have committed suicide?
(a) they couldn't stand seeing all their family and friends dead
(b) brain hemorrhages are capable of causing insanity as well as death
(c) they were too afraid to die of Andromeda
(d) Andromeda told them to do it

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stone do when they find the message?

2. What does Stone ask Manchek to call for to take care of the danger at Piedmont?

3. How did the men feel about finding a solution to Andromeda?

4. What caused societal alarm in the early years of modern science?

5. Where is Mission Control for Project Scoop located?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 408 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample