View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stone ask Manchek to call for to take care of the danger at Piedmont?
(a) a load of pesticides to spray on Piedmont
(b) the National Guard
(c) a thousand ultraviolet lights
(d) a limited thermo-nuclear strike to sanitize the area

2. What concerned Merrick about alien encounters?
(a) the possibility of a plague resulting from an alien bacteria
(b) that they would be hostile and superior
(c) that they have been kidnapping humans for years
(d) that their technology would be much better than ours

3. What does Hall believe about the possibility of a real Wildfire crisis?
(a) he doesn't believe any bacteria could survive space
(b) he believes the project is theoretical and never expects to be called
(c) he can't think of any reason he would be helpful in that type of work
(d) he doesn't think the US is capable of space travel

4. What does Dr. Hall think about the Wildfire project?
(a) that the government can't do anything right, including Wildfire
(b) it is a stupid waste of money
(c) that the government is totally paronoid
(d) he believed the whole project was theoretical and never expected to actually be called

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Manchek asked to do when he calls to alert Wildfire?

2. What is Dr. Burton's specialty ?

3. What is Burton and Stone's working hypothesis about the killer in Piedmont?

4. Who do they find alive in the town?

5. What does the narrator say the nature of all national crises prior to the scientific boom was?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 410 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample