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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they find when they cut open a victim's wrist?
(a) nothing, they never cut open a victim's wrist
(b) the blood has turned green
(c) the blood has hard, white nodules in it
(d) the blood is no longer liquid; it resembles a red sponge

2. What does Samuel "Gunner" Wilson, pilot of the Scavenger plane see as he flies over Piedmont?
(a) the white robed man jumping up and down and waving
(b) an old Ford with its lights flashing
(c) a line of bodies stretched out below him in the center of Piedmont.
(d) he doesn't see anything, it's too dark

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Burton's tests determine about the dead bodies?

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

3. What does Hall believe about the possibility of a real Wildfire crisis?

4. Why does Crichton explain the logic behind the various scientific instruments used?

5. On Jagger's film, one of the white images is in motion. What does that mean?

(see the answer key)

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