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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the first response to Mancheck's call to Wildfire?
(a) to shut down the electricity around Piedmont
(b) to call each scientist on the list
(c) to call the White House
(d) a top-secret cable is issued informing other military units

3. When over the town, Stone and Burton see buzzards eating the bodies. What do they do?
(a) they don't do anything
(b) drop gas canisters to kill the birds
(c) they drop a net to capture one of the birds
(d) fly by low to scare the buzzards away

4. What is the population of Piedmont, Arizona?
(a) 100
(b) 48
(c) 15
(d) 2033

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 eats a gallon of vanilla ice cream every day
(c) he drinks maalox
(d) he doesn't do anything

Short Answer Questions

1. What have these home remedies done to Jackson?

2. What bothers Hall about the substations that will turn off a self-destruct?

3. Who is walking among the bodies?

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

5. What were the first two scientific crises in history?

(see the answer key)

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