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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What spurred significant advances in biological science?
(a) a cure for cancer
(b) the invention of antibiotics
(c) the polio vaccine
(d) the discovery of germs

2. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?
(a) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify the fire department
(b) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify the FBI
(c) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify SECURITY OFFICER 37
(d) IN CASE OF FIRE -- Notify Division 87 -- Emergencies Only

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

4. What's the last thing Lt. Comcoe hears from the radio?
(a) someone pounding on Lt. Shawn's van door
(b) Crane calling out in a high-pitched scream
(c) two dogs barking and growling at each other
(d) the man in the white robe talking to Shawn

5. In what configuration is the Wildfire lab built?
(a) five underground levels connected by a central core
(b) it looks like a large ranch
(c) in a pentagon, like the one in Washington
(d) as a skyscraper

6. What does the Department of Defense do about Stone's proposal?
(a) tells Stone he'll have to join the military to do anything
(b) says the military can take care of any aliens
(c) refuses to help
(d) allocates $22 million for construction of a special, isolated laboratory

7. What did Merrick theorize?
(a) that alien species could not exist
(b) that alien species would be hostile
(c) the first alien species encountered by man would be a bacterium
(d) that alien species would contact earth

8. What concerned Merrick about alien encounters?
(a) that their technology would be much better than ours
(b) that they would be hostile and superior
(c) that they have been kidnapping humans for years
(d) the possibility of a plague resulting from an alien bacteria

9. Who is walking among the bodies?
(a) a couple of house cats
(b) an old man in a white robe
(c) several dogs pulling on the clothes
(d) the town doctor

10. What were the first two scientific crises in history?
(a) finding a vaccine for small pox and the Andromeda Strain
(b) the flu epidemic of 1918 and electrical power generation
(c) the atomic energy and space capability crises
(d) a viable solar energy system and splitting the atom

11. What does Manchek do after he finishes the call with Jagger?
(a) goes to bed
(b) meets his wife for breakfast
(c) takes his dog for a walk
(d) decides to call for a state of emergency

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

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

14. What does Dr. Stone tell his wife as he leaves?
(a) that he'd see her tomorrow
(b) that he will be gone for an indefinite number of weeks
(c) that there must be some mistake, he'll go clear it up
(d) that it's an emergency epidemic and to pack her bag

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What doesn't the government tell Stone about Scoop?

2. What does Stone say the government should do about the possibility of alien bacteria?

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

4. On Jagger's film, one of the white images is in motion. What does that mean?

5. Why was Hall, a surgeon, chosen for the team?

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