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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sober reflection to the men on the Scorpion have about Cairns, Moresby or Darwin?
(a) they will be the last humans to ever see them
(b) only dogs and wild animals will live there
(c) the cities will fall into the sea
(d) they will return to collect the dead

2. What does Moira call the submarine trips into the Northern hemisphere?
(a) looking at dead people through a periscope
(b) looking for needles in a haystack
(c) looking for ships that never come in
(d) looking for busy work

3. What does the USS Scorpion find when it emerges near Queensland?
(a) a fishing boat
(b) a rubber raft
(c) a derelict tanker
(d) an abandoned ferry

4. Why does Peter not take the car to Melbourne?
(a) the car needs some new parts
(b) the tires are flat
(c) the car refuses to start
(d) there is very little gasoline left in the country

5. Why does Osbourne say that perhaps people did not deserve the world?
(a) the world has too much to offer
(b) the animals have more sense
(c) we have been too silly
(d) we deserve something better

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Peter have an appointment?

2. What had the Swordfish done that everyone was talking about?

3. What does Osbourne say about the world?

4. What social gathering have Peter and Mary just hosted as the story opens?

5. Where is the USS Swordfish, another nuclear powered submarine?

(see the answer key)

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