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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as the men stare at the green substance attached to the meteor?
(a) it turns purple and grows right before their eyes
(b) it grows smaller
(c) it starts to hum
(d) it begins to emit light in a pattern

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

3. What bothers Hall about the substations that will turn off a self-destruct?
(a) that he could be sealed off in a section without a substation
(b) they're painted red
(c) it takes too much time to insert the key
(d) they're spaced too close together

4. What happens when Burton gives some live rats anti-coagulant to prevent blood clotting then exposes them?
(a) they bleed out of their noses
(b) they lay down and go to sleep
(c) they don't die when exposed to the disease
(d) the rats live longer, but still succumb to the disease

5. Burton's tests reveal that clotting begins in the lungs then progresses to the brain. What does that mean to him?
(a) that the brain is not that vulnerable to the disease
(b) the disease must be inhaled
(c) that eveyone suffucated before they died
(d) that the disease does't clog the arteries

6. Why is the center core protected?
(a) to prevent potentially contaminated lab animals from escaping
(b) so terrorist can't get through it
(c) so a large bacteria can't float through it
(d) to bar people from being in it

7. What does Stone do to help Burton in the autopsy room when he's been exposed to Andromeda?
(a) pumping oxygen into the room to inhibit the spread of Andromeda
(b) spraying the room with bleach
(c) nothing, he doesn't know what to do
(d) coating the walls with antibiotics

8. When a training pilot crashes after flying above the Piedmont area, what do they find at the plane?
(a) the pilot had left a note to his wife
(b) all the new plastic polymer that replaced rubber in the plane has dissolved
(c) the instrument panel was gone
(d) the pilot was too young to be flying

9. Stone yells at Hall when the self-destruct is announced. What does he tell him?
(a) for Hall to get out of the room right away before Hall gets sealed off from the substations
(b) for Hall to call 911
(c) for Hall to return to the room with Jackson and the baby
(d) for Hall to help Burton

10. What happens when Hall runs to the door?
(a) he gets his arm caught in the sliding door
(b) he slips, falls and breaks his ankle
(c) he gets out and runs to the substation down the hall
(d) it's too late; he is sealed in, away from the substations

11. If the organism directly converts energy to matter with no waste what is it functioning like?
(a) like a highly efficient atomic reactor
(b) a human body cell
(c) a virus
(d) a generator

12. What will Hall wear to examine the two survivors of Piedmont?
(a) a full body glove
(b) latex gloves and surgical mask
(c) his level 5 coveralls
(d) an astronaut's suit

13. What does Hall do as he finishes turning his key in the level 4 substation?
(a) he grabs a nurse and kisses her
(b) he calmly returns to level 5
(c) he slides down the wall unconscious
(d) he jumps up and down and sings

14. Jackson tells Hall he has a medical problem. What is it?
(a) he has thin blood
(b) he has an ulcer, which he has had for two years
(c) he says he has an old war wound
(d) he says he just getting old

15. How will the scientist work on the satellite?
(a) with latex gloves on their hands
(b) behind an ultraviolet barrier
(c) with binoculars
(d) metallic hands inside the sealed room

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the team decide Hall has to find out?

2. Where are the laboratories and equipment rooms that they will be using on level 5?

3. What does the Wildfire group eat for breakfast?

4. What does Hall race back to the autopsy room to stop?

5. What does Hall think about Burton's fear?

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