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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concerned Merrick about alien encounters?
(a) the possibility of a plague resulting from an alien bacteria
(b) that they would be hostile and superior
(c) that their technology would be much better than ours
(d) that they have been kidnapping humans for years

2. What is Burton and Stone's working hypothesis about the killer in Piedmont?
(a) it doesn't seem to affect dogs
(b) it works very slowly
(c) the agent must have transmitted itself through the air
(d) it is passed by contact with an infected individual

3. In communications, why does Captain Morris check for computer malfunctions?
(a) he thought he heard the bell ring
(b) it's time for him to go off shift
(c) he's just doing his job
(d) he's suspicious, because the bell has not rung for some time to signal an incoming communication

4. Why was Hall, a surgeon, chosen for the team?
(a) because they needed one scientist who wasn't married
(b) officials who believe in The Odd Man Hypothesis wanted him
(c) because they needed one medical doctor
(d) because he had a great personality

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wakes Mark Hall up his first morning at the Wildfire lab?

3. What brought about the first scientific crisis in history?

4. What does Hall do about his appointment to Wildfire?

5. Jackson tells Hall he has a medical problem. What is it?

(see the answer key)

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