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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Russians launch at the beginning of the book?
(a) a space shuttle
(b) a research robot bound for Mars
(c) nothing
(d) a Sputnik spy satellite

2. When was the First National Bank in Ft. Repose built?
(a) 1932
(b) 1950
(c) 1943
(d) 1920

3. How do Russia and NATO feel about the Mediterranean?
(a) it has no real value
(b) it's strategically critical
(c) it needs to be divided up
(d) it's too rich

4. What holiday do the children believe they are spending in Florida?
(a) Thanksgiving
(b) Easter
(c) Labor Day
(d) Christmas

5. What is the red baby?
(a) a red sunrise
(b) a bomb carrier that guides itself to a target.
(c) the red alert flag
(d) the sunset when the air is dusty

6. Who kills himself the day the bombs are dropped?
(a) Dan Dunn
(b) Florence
(c) Jerry Kling
(d) Edgar Quisenberry

7. Where do Syrian tanks go near the beginning of the book?
(a) into Egypt
(b) across the Jordan border
(c) into Iraq
(d) into Israel

8. Where does Randy see lines of cars as he drives into town?
(a) at the police station
(b) at the gas station
(c) at the post office
(d) at the library

9. What does Mark do when he arrives at McCoy?
(a) switches planes
(b) asks to spend time alone with Randy
(c) he talks to Paul and Randy
(d) leaves his family with Randy

10. Why does Alice agree to Florence's request?
(a) she thinks Florence needs support
(b) she looked up Alas, Babylon
(c) her husband is out of town
(d) she is bored

11. What does Randy take with him when he goes to town in Chapter 4?
(a) nothing
(b) his family book of history
(c) extra gas cans
(d) his dog

12. How does McCoy Airbase seem to Randy?
(a) cold and scary
(b) hot and dusty
(c) deserted
(d) busier than usual

13. How does Helen feel when she leaves Mark?
(a) happy
(b) like a bad woman
(c) excited
(d) like a deserter

14. What does Randy think of Florence?
(a) she's very nice
(b) she's very smart
(c) she's a gossipy old maid
(d) she is crazy

15. What are Anthony and Cleo?
(a) a pair of racoons
(b) two gray mice
(c) flying squirrels
(d) African lovebirds

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Randy do when Malachai helps him load the car?

2. What does Mark tell Helen to do?

3. Why is Bubba Offenhaus head of civil defense?

4. What does Washington D.C. say about the explosion in the Middle East?

5. What does Randy remember when he wakes in Chapter Four?

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