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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the President respond to Stone's request for a directive 7-12?
(a) decides to postpone Manchek's request for forty-eight hours
(b) calls for a TNT strike instead
(c) he doesn't know what directive 7-12 is
(d) he orders it to be done as soon as Stone is out of Piedmont

2. What concerned Merrick about alien encounters?
(a) that their technology would be much better than ours
(b) that they have been kidnapping humans for years
(c) that they would be hostile and superior
(d) the possibility of a plague resulting from an alien bacteria

3. What did English biophysicist, J.J. Merrick, discuss at a biological symposium?
(a) the improbability of life in space
(b) whether biology was a science worth pursuing
(c) whether humans should go into space
(d) the probabilities of first contact with an alien species

4. When Dr. Stone hears of Merrick's theory what does he do?
(a) he thinks there's nothing that can be done about it
(b) he laughs at them
(c) acts as an advocate for research into this possibility
(d) he thinks Merrick should be fired from his position

5. What briefing does Manchek think about when reviewing what Jagger has told him?
(a) about what to do in a state of emergency
(b) the briefing about space travel
(c) about the briefing on how to call the President
(d) the briefing he received on Project Wildfire

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the personnel in the lab have to do to go to level 5?

2. Who do they find alive in the town?

3. Why was Hall, a surgeon, chosen for the team?

4. What does the narrator say about Lieutenant Shawn's life?

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

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