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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 their nighttime surveillance reveal?
(a) all the houses are lit up
(b) no activity in the town
(c) a pack of dogs are barking at a door
(d) a big town party in the center of town

2. What did Merrick theorize?
(a) that alien species would be hostile
(b) the first alien species encountered by man would be a bacterium
(c) that alien species would contact earth
(d) that alien species could not exist

3. What does Jagger show Manchek on a conference call?
(a) a paper with TOP SECRET printed on it
(b) a red coded phone that connects to Wildfire
(c) the infrared film images of the town
(d) he doesn't show them anything, they're on a phone

4. Why do the two men have radio-directional equipment on the van?
(a) to triangulate the position of the Scoop satellite
(b) to find the town of Piedmont
(c) to find a good radio station
(d) to be able to track aircraft

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what configuration is the Wildfire lab built?

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

3. Who is walking among the bodies?

4. When Dr. Stone hears of Merrick's theory what does he do?

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

(see the answer key)

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