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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Project Wildfire do?
(a) investigates any epidepic of Asian origin
(b) investigates forest fires in America
(c) investigates NASA projects
(d) investigates possible extraterrestrial life forms introduced to earth by returning spacecraft.

2. 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) it's too fragile
(c) nature made it so it stops at a certain size
(d) there's too many antibiotics in the world

3. Why do the two men have radio-directional equipment on the van?
(a) to find a good radio station
(b) to be able to track aircraft
(c) to find the town of Piedmont
(d) to triangulate the position of the Scoop satellite

4. According to the narrator, science has the potential to do two things. What are they?
(a) fail at finding anwers or succeed at finding answers
(b) to empower or to enslave humanity
(c) good things or bad things
(d) prove or disprove an hypothesis

5. What do they find out about the green substance and amino acids?
(a) it shrinks in the presence of amino acids
(b) it has no amino acids
(c) it makes its own amino acids
(d) it makes amino acids out of the air

Short Answer Questions

1. What briefing does Manchek think about when reviewing what Jagger has told him?

2. What does Jagger show Manchek on a conference call?

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

4. What effects is the Andromeda strain having on people by the end of the book?

5. What does Burton's tests determine about the dead bodies?

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