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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stone do when they find the message?
(a) rips it up and throws it in the trash
(b) calls the president's advisor to try to talk him into initiating directive 7-12 immediately
(c) shruggs his shoulders and quotes politics
(d) asks the others what they should do

2. Why are black Norway rats used in labs?
(a) because black hides dirt and blood
(b) because they're the cheapest ones available
(c) because they're very calm rats
(d) all black Norway rats are physically alike

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

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

5. What did English biophysicist, J.J. Merrick, discuss at a biological symposium?
(a) whether biology was a science worth pursuing
(b) the improbability of life in space
(c) whether humans should go into space
(d) the probabilities of first contact with an alien species

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Burton and Stone's working hypothesis about the killer in Piedmont?

2. When they arrive at Piedmont, what do Burton and Stone do first?

3. What happens to the rat when deposited near the satellite?

4. What do Lt. Shawn and Pvt. Crane find in Piedmont?

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

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