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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mayor Seitz do?
(a) Begins getting rid of deadbeats in the town.
(b) Concedes to Senator Jellison's authority.
(c) Goes to see Senator Jellison.
(d) Declares a state of emergency.

2. What do Eric Larsen and his partner, Investigator Harris, come upon?
(a) A church service already prayng about the coming disaster.
(b) A murder in progress.
(c) Two young boys abandoned by their parents.
(d) A group of comet fanatics.

3. What passes Tim and Eileen and goes off the bridge?
(a) A man on a bicycle.
(b) A police cruiser.
(c) A motorcycle.
(d) Another car.

4. What does Jakov say about women?
(a) They are more rational then men.
(b) They become irrational every 28 days.
(c) They cannot be rational but a couple days out of each month.
(d) He does not like them.

5. Who tries to take Harry to town?
(a) Frank.
(b) Harvey.
(c) Cecelia.
(d) Jason.

6. Where is Harry when an earthquake hits?
(a) On his mail route.
(b) At Senator Jellison's ranch.
(c) In bed asleep.
(d) Driving Jason to the airport.

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

8. What are Charles Sharps and Dan Forrester doing?
(a) They are gathering supplies for the bunker.
(b) They are climbing out of the wreckage of the lab.
(c) They are manning the conversations with the Hammerlab.
(d) They are trying to reach Tim Hamner.

9. What is Tim Hamner hosting at his home?
(a) A super bowl party.
(b) A party to celebrate he and his wife's anniversary.
(c) A party to watch the documentary about the comet.
(d) A party for his daughter's sixteenth birthday.

10. What are Chet and Mabel Hawker and their friends, the Andersons, doing when they see a flash of light?
(a) Trying to reach the mountains near Los Angeles.
(b) Playing cards on a plane.
(c) Running for their storm shelter.
(d) In a outdoor church service praying.

11. What do the astronauts think about the earth?
(a) That it is very resilient.
(b) That it is old.
(c) That it is fragile.
(d) They are thinking about the comet, not the earth.

12. What does Tim advise the ranger?
(a) To hole up until the army arrives.
(b) Nothing.
(c) To go into survival mode and plant food.
(d) To head for civilization.

13. Where is Loretta?
(a) On the floor.
(b) In the attic.
(c) In the basement.
(d) In the bathroom.

14. Why do the astronauts consider aborting?
(a) Their lab will likely be pelted with, at the least, high-velocity gravel.
(b) They think they can help more on earth.
(c) They want to get back to their families.
(d) They are afraid of the future.

15. What does Tim encounter on his way to the lab?
(a) A huge rock blocking the road.
(b) A group of riot-equipped cops.
(c) Several large craters.
(d) A group of men in white robes chained to streetlights and begging passersby to pray that the comet misses Earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Mucho Nombre Ranch?

2. What does Barry ask Delores?

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

4. What does the Hammerlab realize the morning the comet is to arrive?

5. Why does Eric kill Fred?

(see the answer keys)

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