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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 happens as the men stare at the green substance attached to the meteor?
2. What type of waste products did Andromeda produce?
3. What do they find out about the green substance and amino acids?
4. Why does an electron microscope work better than any other type of scope?
5. What happens when Hall runs to the door?
Short Essay Questions
1. When he knows about Andromeda's weakness what action does Hall take with Dr. Burton in the biopsy lab?
2. What do you think Montaigne meant by the quote "Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves." in relationship to the behavior of the men at Wildfire?
3. When Hall realizes why Jackson is alive, what does he figure out about the baby?
4. What kinds of animals are used in research? What do various animals do best? Why is the Black Norway Rat used most often in scientific experiments?
5. Describe the study Leavitt uses as the basis for his rule of 48.
6. Why is Mark Hall's reaction to the female computer voice important?
7. After knowing about the baby's blood pH and Jackson's blood pH, what does Hall figure out?
8. Describe Dr. Hall's first meeting with Peter Jackson. What does Jackson look like? What does Hall do?
9. Describe the crash scene of the military jet to which Major Manchek travels . What does it look like? What does he find?
10. Why is uncontrolled bacterial growth is a frightening concept?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Dr. Burton. Do you think he made too many mistakes to stay on the Wildfire team? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Pretend that the Andromeda Strain was engineered by aliens and sent to earth. Why do you think aliens would do that?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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