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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fourth Week: The Prophet; Sixth Week: High Justice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Charles Sharps and Dan Forrester doing?
(a) They are manning the conversations with the Hammerlab.
(b) They are trying to reach Tim Hamner.
(c) They are gathering supplies for the bunker.
(d) They are climbing out of the wreckage of the lab.

2. After the red alert, who joins Rosten and Luce in the bunker?
(a) The vice president.
(b) The president.
(c) The Joint Chief of Staff.
(d) A sergeant, who is assigned to stand watch at the door.

3. How do the Sinanians die?
(a) A motorcycle gang.
(b) The wife of natural causes and the husband of suicide.
(c) A comet lands squarely on their house.
(d) They survive the comet hit on their home and are alive.

4. What is the Mucho Nombre Ranch?
(a) A ranch owned by a drug lord.
(b) Not a ranch at all; just a tiny piece of property owned by an old hermit.
(c) The place of many lies.
(d) A property shared by several families who could never agree on a single name.

5. What does Harry learn at the commune run by Beck?
(a) That the comet hit Earth.
(b) That Harry's home is destroyed.
(c) That there is a roadblock up ahead.
(d) That the National Guard is maintaining martial law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gil think he might live?

2. What does Jackie say about the situation for blacks?

3. What happens to Norm?

4. Who is in a deserted spot in the Santa Monica Mountains?

5. What does Senator Jellison hear while monitoring the astronauts' radio?

(see the answer key)

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