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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they find out about the green substance and amino acids?
(a) it makes its own amino acids
(b) it shrinks in the presence of amino acids
(c) it has no amino acids
(d) it makes amino acids out of the air

2. What does Mark Hall learn about the Wildfire lab as he's reading the last of the file?
(a) that it was made to look like a little town
(b) that it's located in a mountain near Denver
(c) that it has fifteen rooms on each floor
(d) the facility is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device

3. When a training pilot crashes after flying above the Piedmont area, what do they find at the plane?
(a) the pilot had left a note to his wife
(b) the pilot was too young to be flying
(c) the instrument panel was gone
(d) all the new plastic polymer that replaced rubber in the plane has dissolved

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 biology was a science worth pursuing
(c) whether humans should go into space
(d) the improbability of life in space

5. What do the personnel in the lab have to do to go to level 5?
(a) get on the elevator and push the button
(b) strip off their clothes and ride to level five naked
(c) personnel are required to undergo stringent decontamination and quarantine procedures
(d) take a shower and put on scrubs

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Burton gives some live rats anti-coagulant to prevent blood clotting then exposes them?

2. What does Hall do at the computer when he is in the room with his patients?

3. What does the narrator say about the men of Wildfire that will affect the outcome of the work?

4. What's the last thing Lt. Comcoe hears from the radio?

5. On the way to Wildfire, what does Dr. Leavitt tell Dr. Hall to do?

(see the answer key)

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