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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mark Hall learn about the Wildfire lab as he's reading the last of the file?
(a) that it has fifteen rooms on each floor
(b) that it's located in a mountain near Denver
(c) that it was made to look like a little town
(d) the facility is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device

2. What does the narrator say about Lieutenant Shawn's life?
(a) that he is young and has a long life ahead of him
(b) that he's been wasting it
(c) that these are the last few moments he will live
(d) that he is soon to start college

3. What does Dr. Stone tell his wife as he leaves?
(a) that there must be some mistake, he'll go clear it up
(b) that he'd see her tomorrow
(c) that it's an emergency epidemic and to pack her bag
(d) that he will be gone for an indefinite number of weeks

4. What did English biophysicist, J.J. Merrick, discuss at a biological symposium?
(a) whether biology was a science worth pursuing
(b) the improbability of life in space
(c) whether humans should go into space
(d) the probabilities of first contact with an alien species

5. Where is Mission Control for Project Scoop located?
(a) Ft. Sill, Oklahoma
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) NASA headquarters in Birmingham
(d) Vandenberg Airforce Base

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the officers give Stone when they get in the car?

2. When they arrive at Piedmont, what do Burton and Stone do first?

3. What is the first response to Mancheck's call to Wildfire?

4. When Dr. Stone hears of Merrick's theory what does he do?

5. What does Stone find out about project Scoop on the way to the Wildfire lab?

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