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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Private Crane do for Lt. Shawn?
(a) nothing, there is no Private Crane
(b) he is Lt. Shawn's electronics technician
(c) cooks his meals
(d) drives the van

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

3. Who is walking among the bodies?
(a) an old man in a white robe
(b) several dogs pulling on the clothes
(c) the town doctor
(d) a couple of house cats

4. How does Manchek contact Wildfire?
(a) he has been given a business card with a contact number
(b) his contact is in the next building on the base
(c) he has to call his superior officer
(d) he has to call the White House

5. What does Jagger conclude about the white spots, based on the temperature?
(a) forty-seven of the bodies are definitely dead
(b) it's very hot in Piedmont right now
(c) Crane and Shawn might still be alive
(d) it's quite cold in Piedmont right now

Short Answer Questions

1. What does their nighttime surveillance reveal?

2. What does Project Wildfire do?

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

4. What does Lt. Shawn do as he approaches Piedmont?

5. What is Project Wildfire?

(see the answer key)

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