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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Eileen Hancock?
(a) At home ill.
(b) At Yosemite.
(c) In a Hollywood studio.
(d) Stuck in traffic.

3. Who arrives as Harvey is almost asleep?
(a) Joanne and Mark.
(b) Andy and Joanne.
(c) Joanne and Frank.
(d) Frank and Mark.

4. Who fires nuclear weapons upon the Soviets?
(a) The USA.
(b) India.
(c) China.
(d) Iran.

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

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

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

8. What does Barry tell Delores?
(a) That the plant is approved to go online Tuesday.
(b) That the plant is to be shut down indefinitely.
(c) That he is quitting as manager of the plant.
(d) That the plant is to be shut down until after the comet passes.

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

10. Where do Tim and Eileen almost drive off the road?
(a) Right after leaving Tujunga.
(b) At a collapsed road.
(c) They are on foot and not driving.
(d) When they are almost to the observatory.

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

12. What engulfs the island where Willis and MacDonald are sitting?
(a) Nothing, just a few small tidal waves come partly inshore.
(b) A huge lava flow.
(c) A large steam cloud.
(d) A giant tidal wave.

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

14. After the red alert, who joins Rosten and Luce in the bunker?
(a) The Joint Chief of Staff.
(b) The vice president.
(c) The president.
(d) A sergeant, who is assigned to stand watch at the door.

15. Who is killed on the way to Harvey's house?
(a) Mark.
(b) Loretta.
(c) Frank.
(d) Joanne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mabel see lightning hit?

2. What are Alim Nassor and his brother, Harold Davis, doing?

3. Who is the "Brown" in the name of the comet?

4. Who tries to take Harry to town?

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

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