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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. Who do they find alive in the town?
(a) no one
(b) the man in a white robe and a crying infant
(c) two children hiding under a porch
(d) a German shepard and a canary

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

3. What does Lt. Shawn do as he approaches Piedmont?
(a) turns off his headlights so no one can see him
(b) pulls on a biological agent suit
(c) stops and tells Private Crane to get out and wait for him on the hill
(d) leaves his radio on after calling in

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

5. What does Dr. Hall think about the Wildfire project?
(a) he believed the whole project was theoretical and never expected to actually be called
(b) it is a stupid waste of money
(c) that the government can't do anything right, including Wildfire
(d) that the government is totally paronoid

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lt. Shawn and Pvt. Crane find in Piedmont?

2. What brought about the first scientific crisis in history?

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

4. When over the town, Stone and Burton see buzzards eating the bodies. What do they do?

5. In Delta sector on Level I, a man sits before a giant communications console. What is his job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the two things Stone and Burton knew when they landed in Piedmont?

2. What is it about the narration, the characters and the plot thus revealed that makes you want to read further?

3. Why does Stone believe the Wildfire lab has "the capability to deal with an unknown biologic agent."?

4. How is Wildfire put into action by Manchek's phone call?

5. Already, by chapter 4, the reader can tell this is a technical narrative. How does the author handle the technology?

6. Describe the chain of events, in Stone's mind that has lead up to project Wildfire.

7. Write about the procedure the three planes used to look at and take pictures of Piedmont and the capability of the scavenger spy plane.

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

9. What is Lieutenant Roger Shawn doing at the beginning of the book?

10. Describe what happens at Dr. Stone's house when he's called for Wildfire.

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