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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 wakes Mark Hall up his first morning at the Wildfire lab?
(a) Dr. Stone calls him on the phone
(b) an alarm clock he set the previous night
(c) a maid comes in to clean the room
(d) a seductive, female voice

2. What the main hypothesis the men have about why Scoop fell out of orbit?
(a) the Russians shot it down
(b) it was at the end of its allocated usefulness
(c) its batteries ran out
(d) the satellite hit something in its path

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

4. What do they put into the room with the satellite first?
(a) a black Norway lab rat
(b) a brown dog
(c) a pig
(d) a white cat

5. What message have the men received without their knowledge, that they find by accident?
(a) that another sattellite has come down to earth
(b) that the plaque has spread to Texas
(c) that Dr. Leavitt's wife is in the hospital
(d) the notification about the President's decision to delay directive 7-12

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what reason do the men decide some of the Piedmont people seemed to have committed suicide?

3. What have these home remedies done to Jackson?

4. What do they find out about the green substance and amino acids?

5. What happens when Hall runs to the door?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the study Leavitt uses as the basis for his rule of 48.

2. As Stone and Hall figure out the Ph situation, the warning bells go off. Why?

3. Describe Dr. Hall's first meeting with Peter Jackson. What does Jackson look like? What does Hall do?

4. When Hall realizes why Jackson is alive, what does he figure out about the baby?

5. In the conference room in Chapter 12, Dr. Stone talks about a man named Rudolph Karp. Who is Karp? Why does Stone discuss him?

6. After knowing about the baby's blood pH and Jackson's blood pH, what does Hall figure out?

7. What did Manchek find about the wreck of the plane?

8. The scientist are not bad men. It would be easy to see them that way. How does the narrator see them? Or the reader?

9. What is the real mission of Scoop? What do the scientist do when they find out?

10. Leavitt has a dream about a house. When he wakens he believes it has an answer to Andromeda. Describe the dream and his thoughts and reactions to the dream.

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