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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Samuel "Gunner" Wilson, pilot of the Scavenger plane see as he flies over Piedmont?
(a) he doesn't see anything, it's too dark
(b) the white robed man jumping up and down and waving
(c) an old Ford with its lights flashing
(d) a line of bodies stretched out below him in the center of Piedmont.

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

3. When they arrive at Piedmont, what do Burton and Stone do first?
(a) go to the recon van and honk the horn over and over
(b) find the satellite and put it in a container
(c) call in the National Guard
(d) drag the dead bodies to a central location

4. What does the narrator say about Lieutenant Shawn's life?
(a) that he is young and has a long life ahead of him
(b) that these are the last few moments he will live
(c) that he's been wasting it
(d) that he is soon to start college

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the private and lieutenant looking for the Scoop satellite?

2. What does Jagger conclude about the white spots, based on the temperature?

3. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?

4. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?

5. What does Lt. Shawn do as he approaches Piedmont?

(see the answer key)

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