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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Jason Gillcuddy announce to his friend, Harry Newcombe?
(a) He is taking up hang gliding.
(b) He's finished his book and will soon be leaving the valley.
(c) He is getting married.
(d) He is buying a ranch nearby.

4. What does Jellison suggest for survival?
(a) Moving further inland.
(b) Calling in the National Guard.
(c) He is still forming a plan.
(d) Pooling resources.

5. What does Barry ask Delores?
(a) To marry him.
(b) If she is determined to quit her job.
(c) Why she has not ever married.
(d) To go with him to a safe area before the comet comes.

6. What is one thing Russia did in its space program according to Leonilla?
(a) Banned woman from it.
(b) Put on stunts to impress others.
(c) Refused to share technology.
(d) Developed a poor quality fuel.

7. What forms over Mexico?
(a) A huge hurricane.
(b) A volcano.
(c) A thundercloud of immense proportions.
(d) A hail of comet debris.

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

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

10. What does Tim notice about his family?
(a) They all are so proud of him.
(b) They do not seem to care about the comet.
(c) They have grown apart.
(d) They are very close-knit.

11. What are two things Alim and Harold plan to secure?
(a) Guns and food.
(b) A car to get out of the city.
(c) A shelter at least sixty feet deep.
(d) A radio and lots of batteries.

12. Why does Eric kill Fred?
(a) Eric hates the man.
(b) Because Eric believes no one deserves to die locked in a cell.
(c) Fred is hurt too badly to survive.
(d) Fred asks Eric to do so.

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

14. Who is Harvey Randall?
(a) Tim's brother-in-law.
(b) The man who is datng Tim's daughter.
(c) A documentary filmmaker.
(d) Tim's co-worker.

15. Who wants help to retaliate upon China?
(a) The USSR.
(b) Iran.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) India.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is among the officers who cuts the chains to arrest the white-robed fanatics.

2. Where are archaeologists Alexander Willis and MacDonald sitting?

3. Besides the residents, who else is at the ranch?

4. Where does Dr. Sharps' group decide to meet?

5. Why does Sharps decide to call Senator Jellison?

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