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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dwight announce for their next voyage?
(a) looking for underwater places to build a city
(b) sailing completely around the world
(c) putting a man ashore in protective clothing
(d) looking for inhabitable places in the Arctic

2. What will happen when the radiation covers the Southern hemisphere?
(a) global warming will cause floods
(b) everyone on Earth will be dead
(c) it will be safe to head north
(d) rabbits and dogs will die first

3. What happens that night at Peter's and Mary's house?
(a) Dwight and Moira fall in love
(b) Dwight gets drunk and has to be put to bed
(c) Moira gets drunk and has to be put to bed
(d) Moira and Dwight have a huge argument

4. Why does Moira think going to school is ridiculous?
(a) she never liked going to school
(b) there will be no time to use what she learns
(c) there are no jobs anymore
(d) she is too old to learn

5. Where do Lt. Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy, his wife Mary, and baby daughter Jennifer live?
(a) in a flat over a pharmacy
(b) in a hotel in Melbourne
(c) on the Navy Base at Flamouth
(d) in a bungalow not far from Falmouth, Australia

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the radiation expected to reach Australia?

2. What is Mary's chief concern at this point?

3. What sober reflection to the men on the Scorpion have about Cairns, Moresby or Darwin?

4. After the trail cruise, who comes to inspect the USS Scorpion?

5. What are the people of Melbourne doing to cope with the reality of pending death?

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