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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the answering service supervisor tell Hall when he keeps pushing the red button by his bed?
(a) that tomorrow a male voice will waken him
(b) that pushing the red button calls him
(c) that he ought to take this project more seriously
(d) that he is late for breakfast

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

3. What does Stone do when they find the message?
(a) shruggs his shoulders and quotes politics
(b) calls the president's advisor to try to talk him into initiating directive 7-12 immediately
(c) asks the others what they should do
(d) rips it up and throws it in the trash

4. What does the narrator say about the men of Wildfire that will affect the outcome of the work?
(a) the men don't really know what to do
(b) the men have some fatal flaws, which will escalate the crisis
(c) the men are actually aliens wanting to harm the world
(d) the men are only looking after their own interest

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Manchek do after he finishes the call with Jagger?

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

3. How often do the doctors get together to discuss results?

4. Why isn't normal food available at the lab?

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

(see the answer key)

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