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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What have the thieves taken?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Harvey's jerky and vitamins.
(c) Harvey's gun collection.
(d) Harvey's son.
2. Who are the Sinanians?
(a) Friends of Harry who live in Los Angeles.
(b) A couple who have an entirely automated egg operation.
(c) Two more visitors to the Mucho Nombre Ranch.
(d) The Jellison's cook and driver.
3. After the red alert, who joins Rosten and Luce in the bunker?
(a) The president.
(b) A sergeant, who is assigned to stand watch at the door.
(c) The Joint Chief of Staff.
(d) The vice president.
4. What is included in Loretta's survival kit?
(a) Chocolate and diet pills.
(b) Guns and batteries.
(c) Vitamins and sleeping pills.
(d) Pantyhose and make-up.
5. Who arrives as Harvey is almost asleep?
(a) Frank and Mark.
(b) Joanne and Frank.
(c) Joanne and Mark.
(d) Andy and Joanne.
6. What do the astronauts think about the earth?
(a) That it is fragile.
(b) That it is very resilient.
(c) That it is old.
(d) They are thinking about the comet, not the earth.
7. Who is killed on the way to Harvey's house?
(a) Loretta.
(b) Frank.
(c) Mark.
(d) Joanne.
8. What do Tim and Eileen decide to do?
(a) Go back towards Los Angeles.
(b) Go to the observatory.
(c) Get some sleep.
(d) Travel further inland.
9. Who is Harvey Randall?
(a) A documentary filmmaker.
(b) Tim's co-worker.
(c) Tim's brother-in-law.
(d) The man who is datng Tim's daughter.
10. What does Tim tell the men at the collapsed tunnel about California?
(a) It is fine.
(b) It suffers minimal damage.
(c) Most of it is under water.
(d) It is gone.
11. As Harvey makes his way inside, for what is he prepared?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Everything ready for them to run.
(c) A threat.
(d) He is not sure.
12. What does Tim encounter on his way to the lab?
(a) Several large craters.
(b) A group of men in white robes chained to streetlights and begging passersby to pray that the comet misses Earth.
(c) A group of riot-equipped cops.
(d) A huge rock blocking the road.
13. What is one problem the nuclear plant is facing?
(a) A uranium-enriched rod has broken.
(b) Environmentalists are trying to keep the plant from opening.
(c) One cooling tower has a crack.
(d) There has been a meltdown in the past.
14. How is the dog?
(a) It is wounded.
(b) It is fine.
(c) It is dead.
(d) It is slightly injured.
15. What forms over Mexico?
(a) A volcano.
(b) A thundercloud of immense proportions.
(c) A hail of comet debris.
(d) A huge hurricane.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Tim notice about his family?
2. Who tries to take Harry to town?
3. How is Loretta?
4. What does Harvey find when he arrives home?
5. What is forming in Tujunga?
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