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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Tim and Eileen decide to do?
(a) Get some sleep.
(b) Go back towards Los Angeles.
(c) Go to the observatory.
(d) Travel further inland.

2. What is no longer considered any good?
(a) The law.
(b) The water.
(c) Money.
(d) Perishables.

3. What is Delores expecting?
(a) A promotion.
(b) A baby.
(c) A visit from her parents.
(d) A raise.

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

5. Where does Dr. Sharps' group decide to meet?
(a) Somewhere in Oklahoma.
(b) Near the Nevada border.
(c) At the Jellison ranch.
(d) In the hills outside Los Angeles.

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

7. What does Marty want to do?
(a) Make Tim and Eileen leave immediately.
(b) Have Tim help them figure out if the comet has completely passed.
(c) Kill Tim and invite Eileen to stay.
(d) Invite Tim and Eileen to stay.

8. What does Sharps say are the odds of the comet hitting earth?
(a) Ten to one.
(b) Fifty to one.
(c) Five to one.
(d) A zillion to one.

9. Who says they will keep the children who are with Tim?
(a) Les.
(b) Mary Sue.
(c) Marty.
(d) Fitz.

10. What is being handed out in Tujunga?
(a) Identification badges.
(b) Permits to travel.
(c) Gas masks.
(d) Ration cards.

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

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

13. Why is Rick Delanty delayed in doing his work?
(a) He was trading jobs with someone else.
(b) He was confused.
(c) He was sick.
(d) He didn't know what his job was.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in a deserted spot in the Santa Monica Mountains?

2. What forms over Mexico?

3. What is Rick Delanty's claim to fame?

4. Why is a bearded man on Ocean Blvd calling out to others?

5. Why does Frank lay the motorcycles down?

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