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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Seven: The Fifth Season 1963-1964, Part Eight: After The Twilight Zone.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Houghton eventually took a job with Four Star Productions. Fearing that the show would not be renewed, Serling took a job as what?
(a) An instructor at Antioch College.
(b) An instructor at The Ohio State University.
(c) An instructor at Akron University.
(d) An instructor at Ohio University.

3. What does Serling continue to stress is the point of "The Twilight Zone?"
(a) The unbelievability factor.
(b) The predictability factor.
(c) The fear factor.
(d) The fashion factor.

4. Perhaps the most disturbing episode of the second season is what?
(a) Miniature.
(b) Two.
(c) Long Distance Call.
(d) The Lonely.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Emmy nominations did the show garner?

2. At the end of the fourth season, what did CBS decide to do, regarding "Twilight Zone?"

3. What commonly happened in syndication?

4. One of the episodes sponsored by the Ford Motor Company required that what be done?

5. Who was the Serlings' other son?

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