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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The First Season 1959-1960.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused many complications at this location?
(a) The rough foliage of Yellow Stone.
(b) The bears in the Smoky Mountains.
(c) The extreme heat of Death Valley.
(d) The steep walls of the Grand Canyon.

2. To what do some surmise Serling's military experience was the beginning?
(a) His interest in war.
(b) His lifelong battle with CBS.
(c) His lifelong battle with nightmares and depression.
(d) His interest in science fiction.

3. Over the next nine months Serling wrote _______ scripts, each falling into one of three basic categories: fantasy, science fiction, and horror.
(a) 38.
(b) 28.
(c) 18.
(d) 48.

4. Executives were dead set against buying "The Twilight Zone" as a serial and were eventually convinced to take on the series by whom?
(a) Producer Bert Granet.
(b) Writer Rod Serling.
(c) Producer Buck Houghton.
(d) The public.

5. Eventually, "The Time Element" would end up as _______________ the pilot episode of "The Twilight Zone."
(a) A replacement for.
(b) The opposite of.
(c) The same as.
(d) A precursor for.

Short Answer Questions

1. Now that the series was underway, Rod Serling requested that _________________ continue to work as the show's producer.

2. Who was the Serlings' other son?

3. Serling's girlfriend recalls that Serling had a reputation of being what?

4. In 1946, Serling met who?

5. What would eventually become synonymous with "The Twilight Zone?"

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