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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say the nature of all national crises prior to the scientific boom was?
(a) all national crises were political in nature
(b) all national crises were economical in nature
(c) all national crises were educational in nature
(d) all national crises were medical in nature

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

3. What do Lt. Shawn and Pvt. Crane find in Piedmont?
(a) just a town with people going about their business
(b) dead bodies in the middle of the street
(c) the traffic light doesn't work
(d) no people on the streets

4. Who is Major Arthur Manchek?
(a) Chief Duty Officer and man in charge of all Scoop Project activities
(b) advisor to the president on the Scoop project
(c) the air force officer who flew a jet over Piedmont
(d) the man who came up with the Wildfire idea

5. 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) human bodies, dead or alive
(d) solar flares occuring

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lt. Shawn do as he approaches Piedmont?

2. What did English biophysicist, J.J. Merrick, discuss at a biological symposium?

3. When the communication specialist checks the equipment, what does he find?

4. What does Samuel "Gunner" Wilson, pilot of the Scavenger plane see as he flies over Piedmont?

5. How does Burton appear to Stone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why the government agreed to extend funds and build Wildfire?

2. What are the protocols Leavitt personally put into place for Wildfire?

3. In Chapter 3, the narrator discusses the nature of crisis from a historical perspective. What does he have to say about the nature of crisis?

4. What decontamination processes do the men go through on Level 2, 3 and 4?

5. Write a description of Piedmont from Lieutenant Shawn's perspective looking from above.

6. Describe what the Wildfire lab looks like on first approach.

7. Write about the first pages of the book and what the author does to grab the reader's attention.

8. On level 1 what does Stone tell the men when he briefs them about the Wildfire lab?

9. Write about the narrator. What is his purpose? How is his purpose carried out?

10. Describe Major Arthur Manchek.

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