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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: The Third Season 1961-1962.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Serling had written a number of __________ before and during college and had hopes of seeing one or more of those works come to fruition.
(a) Plays.
(b) Scripts.
(c) Books.
(d) Operas.

2. The show was finally renewed, but what was changed?
(a) The actors.
(b) The writers.
(c) The format.
(d) The type of plots.

3. What was the main objection of television executives?
(a) The Time Element and similar scripts required celebrity actors.
(b) The Time Element and similar scripts were expensive.
(c) The Time Element and similar scripts were boring.
(d) The Time Element and similar scripts were left open ended.

4. Serling was beginning to discover that the ideas ____________________ they had before the show began.
(a) Came faster than.
(b) Did not come as fast as.
(c) Were better than.
(d) Were not as good as.

5. What did executives think about Serling's new script?
(a) They thought it was too strange.
(b) They thought it was too predictable.
(c) They thought it was depressing.
(d) They thought it was too scary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the psychiatrist is startled awake?

2. What caused many complications at this location?

3. How is this show about the B-52 bomber similar to previous shows?

4. Who takes Corrigan into custody?

5. When were Serling and his fiancee married?

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