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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the first two scientific crises in history?
(a) the atomic energy and space capability crises
(b) the flu epidemic of 1918 and electrical power generation
(c) finding a vaccine for small pox and the Andromeda Strain
(d) a viable solar energy system and splitting the atom

2. How does the information needed to contact Wildfire read?
(a) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify SECURITY OFFICER 37
(b) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify the FBI
(c) IN CASE OF FIRE -- Notify Division 87 -- Emergencies Only
(d) IN CASE OF FIRE - Notify the fire department

3. Who is Major Arthur Manchek?
(a) the air force officer who flew a jet over Piedmont
(b) advisor to the president on the Scoop project
(c) Chief Duty Officer and man in charge of all Scoop Project activities
(d) the man who came up with the Wildfire idea

4. What do Lt. Shawn and Pvt. Crane find in Piedmont?
(a) just a town with people going about their business
(b) the traffic light doesn't work
(c) dead bodies in the middle of the street
(d) no people on the streets

5. What does Project Wildfire do?
(a) investigates NASA projects
(b) investigates possible extraterrestrial life forms introduced to earth by returning spacecraft.
(c) investigates any epidepic of Asian origin
(d) investigates forest fires in America

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jagger conclude about the white spots, based on the temperature?

2. What kind of theory did noted scholar, Alfred Pockran, have about national crises?

3. What does Samuel "Gunner" Wilson, pilot of the Scavenger plane see as he flies over Piedmont?

4. Why are the private and lieutenant looking for the Scoop satellite?

5. How does Manchek contact Wildfire?

(see the answer key)

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