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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Project Wildfire?
(a) a project to reforest burnt land
(b) a high-tech laboratory, plus a team of scientists
(c) a think tank of politicians
(d) a program they taught in scool

2. Why are black Norway rats used in labs?
(a) all black Norway rats are physically alike
(b) because black hides dirt and blood
(c) because they're the cheapest ones available
(d) because they're very calm rats

3. What does the Department of Defense do about Stone's proposal?
(a) refuses to help
(b) says the military can take care of any aliens
(c) tells Stone he'll have to join the military to do anything
(d) allocates $22 million for construction of a special, isolated laboratory

4. What is Manchek asked to do when he calls to alert Wildfire?
(a) to meet with the scientists
(b) nothing, activating Wildfire is completely automated
(c) to write up a report of the incident
(d) to destroy all evidence

5. On what former scientific belief did Leavitt base his rule of 48?
(a) science's once irrevocable conclusion that the human body contains forty-eight chromosomes
(b) the earth revolves around the sun
(c) it is impossible to put any object into outer space
(d) the earth is flat

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Stone feel they have plenty of time to solve the mystery of the satellite's contamination?

2. Where are the laboratories and equipment rooms that they will be using on level 5?

3. What does Dr. Hall think about the Wildfire project?

4. On Jagger's film, one of the white images is in motion. What does that mean?

5. What does Manchek do after he finishes the call with Jagger?

(see the answer key)

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