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1.	What is being hunted from a helicopter as the film opens?
		A polar bear
		A seal
		A sled dog
		A human

2.	The men in the helicopter are from which nation's camp?
		Norway
		Russia
		Germany
		Argentina

3.	How is the helicopter destroyed?
		One of the Americans shoots it down
		From a dropped thermite charge
		It crashes in a blizzard
		Its rotor clips a ice cropping

4.	What is the number of the outpost that MacReady (Kurt Russell) and the other Americans man?
		31
		13
		24
		59

5.	By trade, MacReady is a:
		Helicopter pilot
		Cook
		Doctor
		Biologist

6.	When MacReady and Copper (Richard Dysart) arrive at the site of the Norwegian camp, they find:
		It's completely intact, but deserted
		It's a smoldering ruin
		It's being heavily defended by its inhabitants
		It has seemingly vanished

7.	MacReady and Copper find smoking remains of a mysterious humanoid corpse. Where at the destroyed camp do they find it?
		Embedded in a block of melting ice
		Outside the structure
		On top of the body of the station commander
		In the dog kennel

8.	Performing an autopsy on the retrieved mysterious corpse, Blair (Wilford Brimley) determines that the __________ seem/s to be normal:
		Skin
		Eyes
		Spinal cord
		Internal organs

9.	Kenneled with the other canines, the Thing attacks the other dogs with tentacles and what appears to be:
		Fire
		Acid
		Spear-like appendages
		Multiple heads

10.	Childs (Keith David) attempts to destroy the Thing in the kennel with:
		A flamethrower
		A gun
		Dynamite
		An axe

11.	Performing an autopsy on the stray dog, Dr. Blair determines that the organism:
		Makes multiple clones of its host
		Imitates its host perfectly
		Mentally controls its host
		Is already 65% human

12.	The Americans learn about a large excavation performed by the Norwegians from:
		A videotape
		A translated journal
		A garbled radio broadcast
		The last of the Norwegian camp survivors

13.	Arriving at the excavation site, MacReady and the others find:
		Nothing
		A spaceship
		Remains of dozens of humans
		The ruins of a Russian camp

14.	Dr. Blair's work on the computer informs him:
		There is a 100% chance that someone in the camp has already been infected
		That he likely has already been infected
		That MacReady is likely the Thing
		That the earth's population will be infected within years if the Thing makes it to civilization

15.	Who finds the Thing doing bad, bad things to Bennings?
		MaCready
		Blair
		Windows, the radio operator (Thomas G. Waites)
		Garry, the station commander (Donald Moffatt)

16.	The Thing-Bennings still mostly looks like its host, except for its hideous:
		Eyes
		Ears
		Hands
		Legs

17.	While the rest of the camp members disposes of Bennings, they realize someone is missing. Who?
		Nauls, the cook (T.K. Carter)
		Blair
		Childs
		Garry

18.	Blair destroys all of the following, except:
		Helicopter
		Tractor
		His lab equipment
		The remaining dogs

19.	MacReady devises a test to find out if any of the camp inhabitants are infected, by injecting them with:
		Nitroglycerin
		Barbiturates
		Morphine
		Truth serum

20.	Nauls finds this in MacReady's shack, leading to believe MacReady is the Thing:
		Blood
		Torn clothing
		A severed head
		A dog leash

21.	Norris suffers an apparent heart attack, only to begin to suddenly transform. Copper loses his ___________ to the Thing:
		Arms
		Legs
		Head
		Eye

22.	MacReady has the idea to draw blood from the crew and test it using:
		Uncontaminated blood
		A blowtorch
		A heated wire
		A razor blade

23.	Palmer is revealed to be the Thing and devours Windows. The others don't act to save Windows, primarily because:
		The believe Windows is the Thing, too
		MacReady has them at gunpoint
		The power goes out and they can't see
		They are all tied up

24.	Aside from Palmer, who else is proven to be infected by the blood test?
		Garry
		Childs
		Nauls
		No one

25.	When MacReady goes to find Blair who has been locked in a cabin, he finds:
		Blair has escaped
		Blair has killed himself
		Blair has been consumed by the Thing
		Blair has been killed by Childs

26.	MacReady theorizes the Thing will attempt to survive by:
		Attempting to overtake any non-human life forms it can find
		Letting itself freeze
		Tunneling to freedom
		Feeding off the bodies of the remaining camp workers

27.	Blair kills two of the final survivors in:
		The cabin
		The helicopter
		The generator room
		The kitchen

28.	MacReady destroys Blair-Thing with:
		Dynamite
		A flamethrower
		Acid
		Liquid nitrogen

29.	Aside from MaCready, the only other survivor at the end of the film is:
		Fuchs
		Nauls
		Garry
		Childs

30.	As the camp burns, the men accept their fate by sharing:
		Whiskey
		A cigar
		Tales of their encounter
		The last of the morphine

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