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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stone do when they find the message?
(a) shruggs his shoulders and quotes politics
(b) asks the others what they should do
(c) rips it up and throws it in the trash
(d) calls the president's advisor to try to talk him into initiating directive 7-12 immediately

2. What do they put into the room with the satellite first?
(a) a black Norway lab rat
(b) a brown dog
(c) a pig
(d) a white cat

3. What the main hypothesis the men have about why Scoop fell out of orbit?
(a) the satellite hit something in its path
(b) it was at the end of its allocated usefulness
(c) the Russians shot it down
(d) its batteries ran out

4. When they arrive at Piedmont, what do Burton and Stone do first?
(a) find the satellite and put it in a container
(b) call in the National Guard
(c) go to the recon van and honk the horn over and over
(d) drag the dead bodies to a central location

5. Too whom does the female voice on the intercom belong?
(a) no one, it's computer simulated
(b) a sixty-three year old woman from Omaha, named Gladys Stevens
(c) Dr. Stone's wife
(d) one of the secretaries from level 1

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Leavitt's rule of "48"?

2. Why are black Norway rats used in labs?

3. What does Jackson say to Hall when Hall wakes him?

4. What do they see in the sky over Piedmont?

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

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