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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the personnel in the lab have to do to go to level 5?
(a) personnel are required to undergo stringent decontamination and quarantine procedures
(b) strip off their clothes and ride to level five naked
(c) take a shower and put on scrubs
(d) get on the elevator and push the button

2. What does Stone say the government should do about the possibility of alien bacteria?
(a) the government should construct a laboratory equipped to handle dangerous alien bacteria
(b) they should sit up a comittee and study the question
(c) they should offer a grant to Stone to look at the question
(d) they shouldn't do anything unless it happens

3. What does Dr. Hall notice about Dr. Leavitt as they get in the sedan that was sent for them?
(a) he looks a lot younger than his age
(b) he's limping on his right leg
(c) Leavitt turns his head away from the flashing lights on top of the sedan.
(d) his hair has thinned on top

4. What does Lt. Comroe at mission control do when told about the bodies?
(a) faints
(b) calls for a security lock down
(c) starts to shake and runs out of the room
(d) calls his sister and tells her to get out of Arizona

5. How does the President respond to Stone's request for a directive 7-12?
(a) he orders it to be done as soon as Stone is out of Piedmont
(b) he doesn't know what directive 7-12 is
(c) calls for a TNT strike instead
(d) decides to postpone Manchek's request for forty-eight hours

Short Answer Questions

1. After going to code red, what does Manchek do?

2. What is Lt. Shawn looking at with a pair of binoculars at the start of the book?

3. What does Hall believe about the possibility of a real Wildfire crisis?

4. What does Stone ask Manchek to call for to take care of the danger at Piedmont?

5. Why was Hall, a surgeon, chosen for the team?

(see the answer key)

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