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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Randy tell Helen and the children when they join him outside?
(a) that it has started
(b) their father called
(c) they need to wait and see
(d) the children need to go to school

2. What does Dan do when Randy tells him about Mark's premonition?
(a) decides to go to the city and get surgigal instruments
(b) gets drunk
(c) kills himself
(d) writes war prescriptions

3. What does James Cobb fire at from his plane?
(a) a machine gun
(b) an air torpedo
(c) nothing
(d) a sidewinder

4. What does Mark tell Helen to do?
(a) survive and care for the children
(b) remarry as soon as possible
(c) to divorce him
(d) wait for him

5. What is Randy given for Peyton?
(a) some candy bars
(b) nothing
(c) a couple bottles of milk
(d) medicine and instructions

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Randy see when he goes outside after being shaken awake?

2. Who is Sir Percy?

3. Who is Edgar Quisenberry?

4. What did the Russians launch at the beginning of the book?

5. What does the government of the United States declare on the radio?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Randy drink in the morning and what does his friend, Dan, say about it?

2. Where did Randy go after he left the bank and what did he do?

3. What does the announcement from the Acting Chief Executive tell the people of Ft. Repose?

4. What does Helen ask Admiral Hazzard and why?

5. What wakes Randy in the beginning of Chapter 5?

6. What kind of encounter does Randy have with Florence and Alice after he is alone the evening of his errands to town?

7. What does Edgar Quisenberry do and how does he feel about it?

8. What does Bill McGovern say to Randy about his warning from Mark?

9. What does Dan say about Peyton's eyes and what does he do about them?

10. Why is Alice late meeting Florence and what ultimately happened?

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