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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What's the first test Burton does on the two dead lab animals?
(a) breathing test to make sure they're dead
(b) a nerve reflex test
(c) vector experiments to determine how the mysterious disease is transmitted
(d) a blood test

4. What does their nighttime surveillance reveal?
(a) all the houses are lit up
(b) a big town party in the center of town
(c) no activity in the town
(d) a pack of dogs are barking at a door

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?

3. Who is in the van with Lt. Shawn?

4. Burton's tests reveal that clotting begins in the lungs then progresses to the brain. What does that mean to him?

5. In communications, why does Captain Morris check for computer malfunctions?

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