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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 Lt. Comroe at mission control do when told about the bodies?
(a) faints
(b) calls his sister and tells her to get out of Arizona
(c) calls for a security lock down
(d) starts to shake and runs out of the room

2. What does the Department of Defense do about Stone's proposal?
(a) allocates $22 million for construction of a special, isolated laboratory
(b) tells Stone he'll have to join the military to do anything
(c) says the military can take care of any aliens
(d) refuses to help

3. What kind of theory did noted scholar, Alfred Pockran, have about national crises?
(a) crisis always have a beginning and end
(b) crises are created by the individual men involved in the events
(c) crisis are created by politicians for good ratings
(d) crisis are created by enemies of the nation

4. What doesn't the government tell Stone about Scoop?
(a) it's an attempt to engage in germ warfare by the U.S. military
(b) it has brought back other samples of alien life
(c) it is not under the control of Congress
(d) that a friend of his died from an alien virus a different Scoop brought back

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?

3. What spurred significant advances in biological science?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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