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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Mission Control for Project Scoop located?
(a) Vandenberg Airforce Base
(b) NASA headquarters in Birmingham
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Ft. Sill, Oklahoma

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

3. 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) a line of bodies stretched out below him in the center of Piedmont.
(d) an old Ford with its lights flashing

4. What spurred significant advances in biological science?
(a) a cure for cancer
(b) the invention of antibiotics
(c) the polio vaccine
(d) the discovery of germs

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the men of Wildfire that will affect the outcome of the work?

2. What were the first two scientific crises in history?

3. What is Project Wildfire?

4. What is the population of Piedmont, Arizona?

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

(see the answer key)

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