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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jackson do for his ulcer?
(a) he takes nearly a bottle of aspirin a day and sips from a can of Sterno
(b) he eats a gallon of vanilla ice cream every day
(c) he doesn't do anything
(d) he drinks maalox

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

3. What's the first test Burton does on the two dead lab animals?
(a) a blood test
(b) breathing test to make sure they're dead
(c) vector experiments to determine how the mysterious disease is transmitted
(d) a nerve reflex test

4. What does Hall think about Burton's fear?
(a) that he'd be afraid too, in that position
(b) that the man shouldn't have gone into this kind of work
(c) that he's a whimp
(d) The idea of being scared to death is somehow the answer

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

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

7. What is the men's theory about Andromeda and blood vessels?
(a) Andromeda burrows in the blood vessels
(b) Andromeda doesn't live well in blood vessels
(c) Andromeda attacks the blood vessel walls directly
(d) Andromeda strengthens blood vessels

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. What seems to produce the best growth in Andromeda?
(a) pure oxygen
(b) chocolate ice cream
(c) saline solution
(d) any type of energy causes it to grow well

10. 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) coating the walls with antibiotics
(d) nothing, he doesn't know what to do

11. On what former scientific belief did Leavitt base his rule of 48?
(a) science's once irrevocable conclusion that the human body contains forty-eight chromosomes
(b) the earth revolves around the sun
(c) it is impossible to put any object into outer space
(d) the earth is flat

12. Why does Hall think the baby's survival and the birds' survival are related?
(a) their rapid breathing
(b) they have small bodies
(c) they are both hungry all the time
(d) they both have big mouths

13. Now that Jackson is awake, what does he tell Hall about the baby?
(a) that he was a twin, but the other one died
(b) that he was sick last week
(c) baby Jamie cries constantly
(d) that he was two months early

14. What does Hall and Stone figure out when they hear the announcement about the gaskets?
(a) the mutated form of Andromeda is only dangerous to rubber gaskets
(b) the mutated form of Andromeda is going to attack the glass
(c) Andromeda is attacking the computer
(d) Andromeda doesn't want to be confined to the lab

15. What does the spectrometer show about the composition of the Andromeda strain?
(a) it has carbon and silicon in it
(b) it resembles earthly organic life
(c) it is not alive
(d) it's radioactive

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Stone and Leavitt find in the satellite?

2. What happens when Robertson informs them of the Phantom crash team's discovery of the depolymerized polymer and the fleshless bone?

3. What does Hall do at the computer when he is in the room with his patients?

4. What does the Wildfire group eat for breakfast?

5. Jackson tells Hall he has a medical problem. What is it?

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