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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. Burton's tests reveal that clotting begins in the lungs then progresses to the brain. What does that mean to him?

2. Why does Hall think the baby's survival and the birds' survival are related?

3. When the seal has been broken in the Autopsy room, who is in there?

4. If one cell of E. coli could produce a supercolony equal in size and weight to the planet, why doesn't that happen?

5. Who wakes Mark Hall up his first morning at the Wildfire lab?

Short Essay Questions

1. When he knows about Andromeda's weakness what action does Hall take with Dr. Burton in the biopsy lab?

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

3. What do the x-ray crystallography results show about Andromeda?

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

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

6. Write about some of the mistakes the scientists made when dealing with Andromeda.

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

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

9. 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.

10. Write about the men of Wildfire and their motivations for finding the cure for Wildfire.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What do you believe this book is saying about scientific advancements? Do you agree with that view point?

Essay Topic 3

The folly of trusting automated processing above human supervision is first shown by the printer jam early in the book, and yet many of our systems, from communications to financial are automated or at least depend heavily upon computers and other machines. Do you think it's reasonable for humans to rely so heavily upon "machines?" Describe the advantages and disadvantages of such a dependence.

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