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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Jason and Harry celebrate the announcement?
(a) With a six pack of beer.
(b) By throwing a party.
(c) With a cup of Brandy.
(d) With a bottle of champagne.

2. Why does Sharps decide to call Senator Jellison?
(a) To ask about a bill before the Senate right now.
(b) To suggest a manned space station to study the comet.
(c) To ask for more funding for the lab.
(d) To suggest funding for a new observatory in the Arctic.

3. What does Harvey find in the bedroom?
(a) His room is intact.
(b) His son is dead.
(c) Things Loretta is packing for survival.
(d) A note from his wife.

4. Where do Charles and Dan hear there is a large strike?
(a) About three hundred miles from the communication center.
(b) Twenty miles from them.
(c) Somewhere in the South Pacific.
(d) Near the California/Oregon border.

5. How do Tim and Eileen manage to get away from the city?
(a) By pretending to be reporters.
(b) By hijacking a car from a teen.
(c) By comandeering a helicopter.
(d) By hitching a ride with Eric.

6. How does Harry leave Carrie Roman's house?
(a) He is able to borrow her bike.
(b) He walks.
(c) He jumps in a ditch and swims away.
(d) He is able to borrow her motorcycle.

7. How do the Sinanians die?
(a) They survive the comet hit on their home and are alive.
(b) A comet lands squarely on their house.
(c) The wife of natural causes and the husband of suicide.
(d) A motorcycle gang.

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

9. What does the Hammerlab realize the morning the comet is to arrive?
(a) The comet's trajectory is nearer the Earth than anyone had thus far predicted.
(b) That the comet is smaller than thought.
(c) The comet is missing earth by a couple light years.
(d) That the comet is twice the size they originally believed.

10. 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.

11. What does Senator Jellison hear while monitoring the astronauts' radio?
(a) That the comet is going to barely nick Earth.
(b) That the comet is going to hit the Earth.
(c) That the comet has slowed down.
(d) That the President has been killed.

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

13. Who is driving the travel all as they leave Harvey's house?
(a) Mark.
(b) Harvey.
(c) Joanne.
(d) Loretta.

14. For whom are they sending helicopters?
(a) The families of the astronauts.
(b) The president.
(c) Tim and his family.
(d) The Governor.

15. Where is Tim Hamner at the opening of the book?
(a) Hiking in the Poconos.
(b) At a party.
(c) In the astronomy lab.
(d) At his son's bar mitzvah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marty want to do?

2. What does Harry learn at the commune run by Beck?

3. What do the friends do after laying the cycles down?

4. What does Tim tell the men at the collapsed tunnel about California?

5. Who arrives as Harvey is almost asleep?

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