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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stone ask Manchek to call for to take care of the danger at Piedmont?
(a) a load of pesticides to spray on Piedmont
(b) a thousand ultraviolet lights
(c) the National Guard
(d) a limited thermo-nuclear strike to sanitize the area

2. What do they see in the sky over Piedmont?
(a) large black birds flying in a circular pattern
(b) a radio blaring rock music
(c) two cats fighting on a fence
(d) a couple of teenagers breaking into a store

3. What is Project Wildfire?
(a) a think tank of politicians
(b) a high-tech laboratory, plus a team of scientists
(c) a project to reforest burnt land
(d) a program they taught in scool

4. What does Hall do about his appointment to Wildfire?
(a) he asks for all the information so he can keep abreast of new developments
(b) he demands more money than the government is offering
(c) nothing, he has never taken his commitment to Wildfire seriously
(d) he demands to appoint a friend of his to the project

5. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?
(a) studying the effects of bacteria on human tissues
(b) he studies the effects of sunlight on viruses
(c) he experiments with human DNA
(d) he's an expert on zero gravity effect on growth of plants

6. What is Manchek asked to do when he calls to alert Wildfire?
(a) to meet with the scientists
(b) to write up a report of the incident
(c) to destroy all evidence
(d) nothing, activating Wildfire is completely automated

7. What did English biophysicist, J.J. Merrick, discuss at a biological symposium?
(a) whether humans should go into space
(b) the probabilities of first contact with an alien species
(c) whether biology was a science worth pursuing
(d) the improbability of life in space

8. What does Samuel "Gunner" Wilson, pilot of the Scavenger plane see as he flies over Piedmont?
(a) he doesn't see anything, it's too dark
(b) an old Ford with its lights flashing
(c) the white robed man jumping up and down and waving
(d) a line of bodies stretched out below him in the center of Piedmont.

9. What does their nighttime surveillance reveal?
(a) a pack of dogs are barking at a door
(b) a big town party in the center of town
(c) all the houses are lit up
(d) no activity in the town

10. Who is in the van with Lt. Shawn?
(a) Private Lewis Crane
(b) no one, he's alone
(c) his dog, a german shepard
(d) his brother and nephew

11. What do they find when they cut open a victim's wrist?
(a) the blood has turned green
(b) the blood has hard, white nodules in it
(c) nothing, they never cut open a victim's wrist
(d) the blood is no longer liquid; it resembles a red sponge

12. What is Caper One?
(a) the name of the Scoop satellite's mission
(b) the name of Lt. Shawn's german shepard
(c) a set-up to catch a drug dealer
(d) the name of Lt. Shawn's mission

13. On the way to Wildfire, what does Dr. Leavitt tell Dr. Hall to do?
(a) take Leavitt's blood pressure
(b) make out his will
(c) to read the project file before arriving at Wildfire
(d) call his mother and tell her where he is

14. How does Burton appear to Stone?
(a) a sharp dresser and compulsive individual
(b) an absent-minded professor with sloppy clothes and untidy hair
(c) a monk in brown robes
(d) a young football player

15. What do the white spots on Jagger's film indicate?
(a) that the camera picked up the flares on the ground
(b) that water fell on the film
(c) solar flares occuring
(d) human bodies, dead or alive

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?

2. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?

3. What does the narrator say about the men of Wildfire that will affect the outcome of the work?

4. Who do they find alive in the town?

5. What does Dr. Hall notice about Dr. Leavitt as they get in the sedan that was sent for them?

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