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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 Dr. Stone tell his wife as he leaves?
(a) that he will be gone for an indefinite number of weeks
(b) that it's an emergency epidemic and to pack her bag
(c) that he'd see her tomorrow
(d) that there must be some mistake, he'll go clear it up

2. What does Project Wildfire do?
(a) investigates forest fires in America
(b) investigates NASA projects
(c) investigates any epidepic of Asian origin
(d) investigates possible extraterrestrial life forms introduced to earth by returning spacecraft.

3. What do they find when they cut open a victim's wrist?
(a) the blood has hard, white nodules in it
(b) the blood is no longer liquid; it resembles a red sponge
(c) nothing, they never cut open a victim's wrist
(d) the blood has turned green

4. 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) refuses to help
(d) says the military can take care of any aliens

5. What is Burton and Stone's working hypothesis about the killer in Piedmont?
(a) it works very slowly
(b) it doesn't seem to affect dogs
(c) it is passed by contact with an infected individual
(d) the agent must have transmitted itself through the air

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Manchek contact Wildfire?

2. What does the narrator say the nature of all national crises prior to the scientific boom was?

3. When the communication specialist checks the equipment, what does he find?

4. What does Mark Hall learn about the Wildfire lab as he's reading the last of the file?

5. What does Dr. Hall notice about Dr. Leavitt as they get in the sedan that was sent for them?

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