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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?
(a) the town of Piedmont, Arizona
(b) two purple vans with peace symbols
(c) his brother's backyard
(d) a couple of bears

2. What does Stone ask Manchek to call for to take care of the danger at Piedmont?
(a) a limited thermo-nuclear strike to sanitize the area
(b) a load of pesticides to spray on Piedmont
(c) the National Guard
(d) a thousand ultraviolet lights

3. What does Jagger conclude about the white spots, based on the temperature?
(a) it's very hot in Piedmont right now
(b) it's quite cold in Piedmont right now
(c) Crane and Shawn might still be alive
(d) forty-seven of the bodies are definitely dead

4. Dr. Stone heads to Piedmont with another scientist. Who is he?
(a) Dr. Charles Burton, professor at Baylor Medical School
(b) Dr. Steven Levine
(c) Dr. Kathleen Coller
(d) Dr. Byon Shelby

5. What does Stone find out about project Scoop on the way to the Wildfire lab?
(a) that the Scoop satellite in Piedmont is the first one sent up
(b) it was designed to obtain samples of alien bacterial life in space
(c) that a civilian billionaire is paying for it
(d) that NASA doesn't know about it

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?

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

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

4. In what configuration is the Wildfire lab built?

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

(see the answer key)

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