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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the communication specialist checks the equipment, what does he find?
(a) the communications computer appears to be functioning perfectly
(b) there's paper stopping the bell from ringing
(c) there's something wrong with the communication system
(d) he's sees a computer monitor that is turned off

2. What's the last thing Lt. Comcoe hears from the radio?
(a) two dogs barking and growling at each other
(b) the man in the white robe talking to Shawn
(c) Crane calling out in a high-pitched scream
(d) someone pounding on Lt. Shawn's van door

3. What does Burton's tests determine about the dead bodies?
(a) the disease stays on the dead body, still contagious
(b) they're not contagious, only the air surrounding them transmits the disease
(c) they are disintegrating quickly
(d) the disease leaves after the body dies

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

5. What does Jackson do for his ulcer?
(a) he takes nearly a bottle of aspirin a day and sips from a can of Sterno
(b) he doesn't do anything
(c) he drinks maalox
(d) he eats a gallon of vanilla ice cream every day

Short Answer Questions

1. In what configuration is the Wildfire lab built?

2. What concerned Merrick about alien encounters?

3. What does Jagger conclude about the white spots, based on the temperature?

4. What do they put into the room with the satellite first?

5. What spurred significant advances in biological science?

(see the answer key)

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