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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Manchek contact Wildfire?
(a) he has been given a business card with a contact number
(b) his contact is in the next building on the base
(c) he has to call his superior officer
(d) he has to call the White House

2. If one cell of E. coli could produce a supercolony equal in size and weight to the planet, why doesn't that happen?
(a) it's too fragile
(b) nature made it so it stops at a certain size
(c) food and oxygen run out
(d) there's too many antibiotics in the world

3. What have these home remedies done to Jackson?
(a) made him a drug addict
(b) made him insane
(c) created acidosis, or excess acidity in the body
(d) has aged him before his time

4. Jackson tells Hall he has a medical problem. What is it?
(a) he says he just getting old
(b) he has an ulcer, which he has had for two years
(c) he has thin blood
(d) he says he has an old war wound

5. How is the center core protected, level to level?
(a) with laser beams
(b) sensors track movement in the core, and shoot ligamine darts at any moving target
(c) with electrical shocks
(d) with guard dogs

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the two men have radio-directional equipment on the van?

2. There is another way for Hall to reach a substation. What is it?

3. Why is the center core protected?

4. What does the answering service supervisor tell Hall when he keeps pushing the red button by his bed?

5. What does Jackson say to Hall when Hall wakes him?

(see the answer key)

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