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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The Second Season 1960-1961.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Serling feel as the censorship increased?
(a) He became more angry.
(b) He became more worried.
(c) He became more safe.
(d) He became more frustrated.

2. When Mr. Dingle decides to perform for a live television audience, what happens?
(a) The audience fears him.
(b) His additional strength is taken away.
(c) He becomes very popular.
(d) He destroys the set.

3. When Jenson awakes, he calls a phone number attached to the name of the ensign. A woman answers the phone and tells Jenson what?
(a) Her son, the ensign, is sitting right next to her.
(b) Her son, the ensign, and his wife had been killed at Pearl Harbor.
(c) Her son, the ensign, was killed in Germany.
(d) Her son, the ensign, is living in Hawaii with his wife.

4. With what does Houghton note that the CBS executives were becoming increasingly concerned?
(a) The budget.
(b) Serling.
(c) Story ideas.
(d) The set.

5. To what do some surmise Serling's military experience was the beginning?
(a) His lifelong battle with CBS.
(b) His interest in war.
(c) His lifelong battle with nightmares and depression.
(d) His interest in science fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. The premise of this first story is that a B-25 bomber falls out of the sky to land where?

2. What does "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" detail?

3. Serling would be required to write what percent of the scripts for the show's first season?

4. "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" revolves around who?

5. Who was put in charge of the new series?

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