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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what configuration is the Wildfire lab built?
(a) as a skyscraper
(b) in a pentagon, like the one in Washington
(c) it looks like a large ranch
(d) five underground levels connected by a central core

2. What doesn't the government tell Stone about Scoop?
(a) it has brought back other samples of alien life
(b) it's an attempt to engage in germ warfare by the U.S. military
(c) it is not under the control of Congress
(d) that a friend of his died from an alien virus a different Scoop brought back

3. What is the population of Piedmont, Arizona?
(a) 2033
(b) 48
(c) 15
(d) 100

4. What were the first two scientific crises in history?
(a) the flu epidemic of 1918 and electrical power generation
(b) finding a vaccine for small pox and the Andromeda Strain
(c) a viable solar energy system and splitting the atom
(d) the atomic energy and space capability crises

5. What does Burton's tests determine about the dead bodies?
(a) they are disintegrating quickly
(b) the disease leaves after the body dies
(c) the disease stays on the dead body, still contagious
(d) they're not contagious, only the air surrounding them transmits the disease

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the nature of all national crises prior to the scientific boom was?

2. When over the town, Stone and Burton see buzzards eating the bodies. What do they do?

3. When a training pilot crashes after flying above the Piedmont area, what do they find at the plane?

4. What briefing does Manchek think about when reviewing what Jagger has told him?

5. What does Major Arthur Manchek order when he hears of the radio silence at Piedmont?

(see the answer key)

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