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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. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?

2. What did Merrick theorize?

3. What concerned Merrick about alien encounters?

4. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?

5. What do the white spots on Jagger's film indicate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Dr. Burton as he rides in the helicopter with Dr. Stone going to Piedmont. Tell a little of his background in science.

5. Describe Major Arthur Manchek.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Leavitt discusses a machine invented to provide computerized physical exams. The machine is designed to replace doctors. How would you feel if such a machine existed? Describe a scene where you are being examined by a machine. How do you feel? How do you relate to the machine? Do you miss a flesh and blood physician? Would you trust a machine as your doctor? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The process of "decontaminating" the body is almost inherently self-hating. It is as if Jeremy Stone, who designed the Wildfire decontamination process, believes human bodies are loathsome and dirty. Visualize a world where everyone thought this. How would humans interact? What type of emotions do you think humans would develop? How would reproduction occur? If you stepped into a world in the future where the human body was considered loathsome and dirty, where no one would get close to another person, how would you feel? What would you do?

Essay Topic 3

In this book the government had several "top secret" projects of which few of its citizens were knowledgeable. Do you think this is okay for the government to do? Do you believe that the government should keep secrets from the people? Why or why not? Do you think the government should have first access to all technology? Why or why not?

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