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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 Samuel "Gunner" Wilson, pilot of the Scavenger plane see as he flies over Piedmont?
(a) he doesn't see anything, it's too dark
(b) an old Ford with its lights flashing
(c) the white robed man jumping up and down and waving
(d) a line of bodies stretched out below him in the center of Piedmont.

2. What does Hall believe about the possibility of a real Wildfire crisis?
(a) he can't think of any reason he would be helpful in that type of work
(b) he believes the project is theoretical and never expects to be called
(c) he doesn't think the US is capable of space travel
(d) he doesn't believe any bacteria could survive space

3. What do the officers give Stone when they get in the car?
(a) a file on the crisis
(b) a telephone to call other scientist
(c) a file on Wildfire
(d) a handgun

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stone find out about project Scoop on the way to the Wildfire lab?

2. What does the narrator say about Lieutenant Shawn's life?

3. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?

4. When they arrive at Piedmont, what do Burton and Stone do first?

5. What is Burton and Stone's working hypothesis about the killer in Piedmont?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What is Jagger's job and what does he say about the reconnoiter photos and what they show.

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

6. Describe the Odd Man Hypothesis. Do you think it's a good idea?

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

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

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

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