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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?
(a) two purple vans with peace symbols
(b) his brother's backyard
(c) a couple of bears
(d) the town of Piedmont, Arizona

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

3. What does Stone say the government should do about the possibility of alien bacteria?
(a) they shouldn't do anything unless it happens
(b) the government should construct a laboratory equipped to handle dangerous alien bacteria
(c) they should sit up a comittee and study the question
(d) they should offer a grant to Stone to look at the question

4. When they arrive at Piedmont, what do Burton and Stone do first?
(a) call in the National Guard
(b) drag the dead bodies to a central location
(c) find the satellite and put it in a container
(d) go to the recon van and honk the horn over and over

5. What were the first two scientific crises in history?
(a) finding a vaccine for small pox and the Andromeda Strain
(b) the flu epidemic of 1918 and electrical power generation
(c) the atomic energy and space capability crises
(d) a viable solar energy system and splitting the atom

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hall believe about the possibility of a real Wildfire crisis?

2. What does Dr. Hall think about the Wildfire project?

3. What do the personnel in the lab have to do to go to level 5?

4. What does Major Arthur Manchek order when he hears of the radio silence at Piedmont?

5. What does Samuel "Gunner" Wilson, pilot of the Scavenger plane see as he flies over Piedmont?

(see the answer key)

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