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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Quick and the Dead; Rich Man, Poor Man; The Landlord.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is forming in Tujunga?
(a) A crack the size of the Grand Canyon.
(b) A soup line.
(c) A memorial.
(d) A series of tremors.

2. What does the Hammerlab realize the morning the comet is to arrive?
(a) That the comet is twice the size they originally believed.
(b) That the comet is smaller than thought.
(c) The comet's trajectory is nearer the Earth than anyone had thus far predicted.
(d) The comet is missing earth by a couple light years.

3. What does Tim encounter on his way to the lab?
(a) Several large craters.
(b) A group of men in white robes chained to streetlights and begging passersby to pray that the comet misses Earth.
(c) A group of riot-equipped cops.
(d) A huge rock blocking the road.

4. Where do Tim and Eileen almost drive off the road?
(a) When they are almost to the observatory.
(b) At a collapsed road.
(c) Right after leaving Tujunga.
(d) They are on foot and not driving.

5. For what city are the archaeologists searching?
(a) Mims.
(b) Krakatoa.
(c) Pompeii.
(d) Atlantis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Tim and Eileen find off the main road?

2. What does Dr. Leonilla Alexandrovna Malik want to be doing?

3. What are Alim Nassor and his brother, Harold Davis, doing?

4. What do Tim and Eileen decide to do?

5. What do Eric Larsen and his partner, Investigator Harris, come upon?

(see the answer key)

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