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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Harvey driving to get home?
(a) A dump truck.
(b) A police cruiser.
(c) A travel all.
(d) A motorcycle.

4. What do Eileen and Tim find in Tujunga?
(a) The place is filled with armed men in an array of outdated and ill-fitting uniforms.
(b) Several of their friends.
(c) A bunker underground.
(d) It is desolate.

5. Why is a bearded man on Ocean Blvd calling out to others?
(a) To have them pray.
(b) For his lot dog.
(c) For help as he is stuck under some debris.
(d) For money.

6. What does Senator Jellison hear while monitoring the astronauts' radio?
(a) That the comet is going to barely nick Earth.
(b) That the President has been killed.
(c) That the comet is going to hit the Earth.
(d) That the comet has slowed down.

7. What does Harry learn at the commune run by Beck?
(a) That Harry's home is destroyed.
(b) That the National Guard is maintaining martial law.
(c) That there is a roadblock up ahead.
(d) That the comet hit Earth.

8. Why does Frank lay the motorcycles down?
(a) To work on the chains.
(b) So they won't fall over in a quake.
(c) To do an oil change.
(d) To drain the gas out of the tanks completely.

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

10. What does Harvey find in the bedroom?
(a) His room is intact.
(b) His son is dead.
(c) A note from his wife.
(d) Things Loretta is packing for survival.

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

12. What does the Hammerlab realize the morning the comet is to arrive?
(a) The comet's trajectory is nearer the Earth than anyone had thus far predicted.
(b) The comet is missing earth by a couple light years.
(c) That the comet is smaller than thought.
(d) That the comet is twice the size they originally believed.

13. Who wants to meet the Romans?
(a) Senator Jellison.
(b) Harry.
(c) Norm Lilly.
(d) No one since they are unfriendly.

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

15. Who is the "Brown" in the name of the comet?
(a) It is the name of the lab where Tim works.
(b) It is the name of a young man who discovers the comet about the same time as Tim Hamner.
(c) It is Tim's wife's name.
(d) It is Tim's boss's name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Charles Sharps and Dan Forrester doing?

2. Why does Tim decline to go with the Ranger?

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

4. How do the Sinanians die?

5. What does Mayor Seitz do?

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