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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Entering The Twilight Zone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Serling was encouraged to do what?
(a) Write more scripts.
(b) Make several scripts into movies.
(c) Become an editor.
(d) Quit writing.

2. What was the main objection of television executives?
(a) The Time Element and similar scripts were boring.
(b) The Time Element and similar scripts were left open ended.
(c) The Time Element and similar scripts were expensive.
(d) The Time Element and similar scripts required celebrity actors.

3. Serling would be required to write what percent of the scripts for the show's first season?
(a) Fifty.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Eighty.

4. What happens when the psychiatrist is startled awake?
(a) He wonders where his patient went.
(b) He is confused about where he is.
(c) He knows that something is amiss.
(d) He looks at the clock on the wall.

5. In the dream, Jenson attempts to warn people about what?
(a) The impending war in Europe.
(b) The impending attack on Pearl Harbor.
(c) The impending war in the Pacific.
(d) The impending war in Korea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Has Jenson ever been to Honolulu?

2. In order to gain his bearings, where does the psychiatrist go?

3. In 1953, when Serling's work appeared on television, how did the critics respond?

4. What was one way in which producers accomplished the goal mentioned in #26?

5. Who was the Serlings' other son?

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