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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Six: The Fourth Season 1963.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the move, Rod went to work as a staff writer for whom?
(a) WRT Radio.
(b) WLW Radio.
(c) WXT Radio.
(d) WKW Radio.

2. One of the episodes sponsored by the Ford Motor Company required that what be done?
(a) The president of the Ford company must be a guest actor.
(b) The name Ford must be mentioned one hundred times.
(c) The Chrysler Building be blacked out of the skyline because the two companies were competitors.
(d) A Ford car be found in every scene.

3. What was one of the first jobs assigned to Houghton?
(a) To make sure props had been purchased.
(b) To work with the actors on their dialogue.
(c) To find a studio in which to shoot the series.
(d) To write ten new scripts.

4. This series was intended to bring what?
(a) The best available situation comedy to the television screen.
(b) The best available science fiction to the television screen.
(c) The best available drama to the television screen.
(d) The best available comedy to the television screen.

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. Perhaps the most disturbing episode of the second season is what?

2. The story was written by Montgomery Pittman, who had previously directed what?

3. In 1946, Serling met who?

4. What happens when the psychiatrist is startled awake?

5. Who was put in charge of the new series?

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