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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leavitt feel about Wildfire?

2. What is Manchek asked to do when he calls to alert Wildfire?

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

4. What's the last thing Lt. Comcoe hears from the radio?

5. What spurred significant advances in biological science?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Major Arthur Manchek.

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

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

6. What does Manchek do after reviewing the intelligence with Jagger?

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the atmosphere inside the Wildfire lab. Did the men like each other? With the work they are doing does it matter if they like each other? How did they treat the staff? How did they feel about Wildfire?

Essay Topic 2

What do you think is the meaning of this phrase: "Especially in the United States, consumers decide what technology is worthy of purchase." How does your life illustrate that idea? Do you think the idea would be meaningless in a much more technologically-lower country? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Dr. Hall. Would you like him if you met him? Why or why not?

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