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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What forms over Mexico?
(a) A huge hurricane.
(b) A thundercloud of immense proportions.
(c) A hail of comet debris.
(d) A volcano.

2. What does Barry ask Delores?
(a) To marry him.
(b) Why she has not ever married.
(c) If she is determined to quit her job.
(d) To go with him to a safe area before the comet comes.

3. What does Harvey do?
(a) Calls his wife on the cell phone.
(b) Leaves in his travel all.
(c) Goes to the neighbor's house.
(d) Lies on the bed.

4. Who wants to meet the Romans?
(a) Norm Lilly.
(b) No one since they are unfriendly.
(c) Senator Jellison.
(d) Harry.

5. What is included in Loretta's survival kit?
(a) Vitamins and sleeping pills.
(b) Guns and batteries.
(c) Chocolate and diet pills.
(d) Pantyhose and make-up.

6. What does Dr. Leonilla Alexandrovna Malik want to be doing?
(a) Defecting to the U.S.A.
(b) Marrying her fiance who is in space at the moment.
(c) Being a kosmonaut for which she is trained.
(d) Treat sick children.

7. What does Jellison suggest for survival?
(a) Pooling resources.
(b) He is still forming a plan.
(c) Calling in the National Guard.
(d) Moving further inland.

8. Why does Fred Lauren murder Colleen?
(a) Fred is paronoid and thinks she is wiretapping him.
(b) He thinks the world is about to end so he does not care if he is caught.
(c) She is married to a man Fred hates.
(d) She has taunted him constantly.

9. Who is Delores?
(a) Barry's sister.
(b) Harvey's camera woman.
(c) Harvey's wife.
(d) Barry's secretary and lover.

10. What is the Mucho Nombre Ranch?
(a) A property shared by several families who could never agree on a single name.
(b) The place of many lies.
(c) Not a ranch at all; just a tiny piece of property owned by an old hermit.
(d) A ranch owned by a drug lord.

11. What does Barry Price do?
(a) He is another astronomer.
(b) He is chief of police of San Joaquin.
(c) He is a lawyer for San Joaquin City.
(d) Manages the San Joaquin Nuclear Power Plant.

12. Where are archaeologists Alexander Willis and MacDonald sitting?
(a) Atop a mountain to watch the comet's passing.
(b) In Tahiti.
(c) In Cheops's pyramid.
(d) In Amenhotep's pyramid.

13. What is forming in Tujunga?
(a) A crack the size of the Grand Canyon.
(b) A soup line.
(c) A series of tremors.
(d) A memorial.

14. How is Loretta?
(a) She is dead.
(b) She is fine.
(c) She is wounded.
(d) She is slightly injured.

15. What does Baker think is the answer to the earth's problems?
(a) Colonizing other planets.
(b) Mandatory population control.
(c) He is not sure.
(d) Mandatory pollution control by a world-wide governing body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Harvey driving to get home?

2. What does Harvey find in the bedroom?

3. What do Eileen and Tim find in Tujunga?

4. What does Harry do when he cannot get past the cracks in the road?

5. What do Tim and Eileen decide to do?

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