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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dr. Stone doing when the military shows up at his door?
(a) sleeping
(b) reading the newspaper
(c) saying good-bye to dinner guests
(d) he's not there, he's at work

2. What does Stone ask Manchek to call for to take care of the danger at Piedmont?
(a) a limited thermo-nuclear strike to sanitize the area
(b) the National Guard
(c) a thousand ultraviolet lights
(d) a load of pesticides to spray on Piedmont

3. What does the Wildfire team believe about the origin of the Scoop contamination?
(a) the contamination has earth germs that mutated
(b) they come to believe it is an alien life form
(c) that the contamination happened before the satellite left earth
(d) there is no contamination; nothing can live in space

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

5. What is Project Wildfire?
(a) a project to reforest burnt land
(b) a think tank of politicians
(c) a high-tech laboratory, plus a team of scientists
(d) a program they taught in scool

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jagger show Manchek on a conference call?

2. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?

3. How does Manchek contact Wildfire?

4. What does the team decide Hall has to find out?

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

(see the answer key)

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