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

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) a line of bodies stretched out below him in the center of Piedmont.
(c) the white robed man jumping up and down and waving
(d) an old Ford with its lights flashing

2. What's the last thing Lt. Comcoe hears from the radio?
(a) someone pounding on Lt. Shawn's van door
(b) two dogs barking and growling at each other
(c) Crane calling out in a high-pitched scream
(d) the man in the white robe talking to Shawn

3. 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 he received on Project Wildfire
(c) the briefing about space travel
(d) about the briefing on how to call the President

4. Who is walking among the bodies?
(a) the town doctor
(b) several dogs pulling on the clothes
(c) an old man in a white robe
(d) a couple of house cats

5. What does the narrator say the nature of all national crises prior to the scientific boom was?
(a) all national crises were educational in nature
(b) all national crises were economical in nature
(c) all national crises were medical in nature
(d) all national crises were political in nature

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What brought about the first scientific crisis in history?

5. What kind of theory did noted scholar, Alfred Pockran, have about national crises?

(see the answer key)

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