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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Entering The Twilight Zone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Serling would be required to write what percent of the scripts for the show's first season?
(a) Eighty.
(b) Seventy.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Fifty.

2. What was the main objection of television executives?
(a) The Time Element and similar scripts were expensive.
(b) The Time Element and similar scripts required celebrity actors.
(c) The Time Element and similar scripts were boring.
(d) The Time Element and similar scripts were left open ended.

3. In the dream, Jenson attempts to warn people about what?
(a) The impending war in Korea.
(b) The impending attack on Pearl Harbor.
(c) The impending war in the Pacific.
(d) The impending war in Europe.

4. When Jenson awakes, he calls a phone number attached to the name of the ensign. A woman answers the phone and tells Jenson what?
(a) Her son, the ensign, and his wife had been killed at Pearl Harbor.
(b) Her son, the ensign, is sitting right next to her.
(c) Her son, the ensign, is living in Hawaii with his wife.
(d) Her son, the ensign, was killed in Germany.

5. When did the Serlings move to Binghamton, New York?
(a) Shortly after Rod's first birthday.
(b) Shortly before Rod's first birthday.
(c) Shortly after Rod's birth.
(d) Shortly before Rod's birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Pete Jenson in this first episode?

2. While in the service, Serling trained as what?

3. CBS would own the remaining what percent of the show?

4. Who was put in charge of the new series?

5. Who was the Serlings' other son?

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