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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Manchek do after he finishes the call with Jagger?
(a) meets his wife for breakfast
(b) takes his dog for a walk
(c) decides to call for a state of emergency
(d) goes to bed

2. What did Merrick theorize?
(a) the first alien species encountered by man would be a bacterium
(b) that alien species would be hostile
(c) that alien species would contact earth
(d) that alien species could not exist

3. What does Major Arthur Manchek order when he hears of the radio silence at Piedmont?
(a) he orders a Scavenger plane to make a flyby over Piedmont
(b) he orders a national guard unit into Piedmont
(c) he orders Lt. Comcoe to send a message to Crane on a secret channel
(d) he orders a helicopter to Piedmont

4. When they arrive at Piedmont, what do Burton and Stone do first?
(a) find the satellite and put it in a container
(b) go to the recon van and honk the horn over and over
(c) call in the National Guard
(d) drag the dead bodies to a central location

5. How does Burton appear to Stone?
(a) a young football player
(b) an absent-minded professor with sloppy clothes and untidy hair
(c) a sharp dresser and compulsive individual
(d) a monk in brown robes

Short Answer Questions

1. What did English biophysicist, J.J. Merrick, discuss at a biological symposium?

2. What has the mutated Andromeda strain started to do?

3. Why do the two men have radio-directional equipment on the van?

4. What caused societal alarm in the early years of modern science?

5. What bothers Hall about the substations that will turn off a self-destruct?

(see the answer key)

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