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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 does Jackson say to Hall when Hall wakes him?

2. What does Stone do to help Burton in the autopsy room when he's been exposed to Andromeda?

3. What does the spectrometer show about the composition of the Andromeda strain?

4. Why isn't normal food available at the lab?

5. What does Hall race back to the autopsy room to stop?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did the Scoop satellite end up on earth? What do the scientist think?

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

5. Why is Mark Hall's reaction to the female computer voice important?

6. Why is uncontrolled bacterial growth is a frightening concept?

7. 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?

8. Describe the first exploration of the satellite. What did the men do? What did they find?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe all the objects in your home and their uses that were invented in the past thirty years. Do you think life would be difficult without them? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Dr. Leavitt. Did you like him? Does he remind you of anyone you know? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

When considering all the technology in this book, do you believe humans are ready to have such technology? Do you think humans are civilized enough to go into space? Why do you think we have not flown people to another planet yet?

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