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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Norm?
(a) He gets a shotgun blast in the chest.
(b) He has insulin shock.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He slips into one of the cracks in the road and breaks his neck.

2. What does Jellison suggest forming?
(a) A council for making decisions.
(b) A group to go out and help others.
(c) A vigilante group to keep order.
(d) A new government with him as president.

3. What are Alim Nassor and his brother, Harold Davis, doing?
(a) Digging a comet shelter.
(b) Casing houses of people who are leaving the city.
(c) Hiking in the Rockies.
(d) Trying to figure out where is safe from the comet.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Tim and Eileen try to buy?

2. What do Tim and Eileen find off the main road?

3. What is one thing Russia did in its space program according to Leonilla?

4. Who is Delores?

5. What do the astronauts think about the earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Harry happen take up residence at a chicken ranch and do you think he has the right to do so?

2. Briefly describe Tim and Eileen's journey by car to the observatory.

3. Discuss how carefully Gordie plans his suicide.

4. Why does Harvey wonder about where Marie might be?

5. How do the astronauts decide to land in California?

6. What happens to Norm Lilly that demonstrates the continued deterioration of law and order?

7. What exchange between Barry and Delores seems to remove some pressure from Barry?

8. Why do most scientists misjudge the path of the comet before it hits earth?

9. What does Harvey find when he finally makes it home?

10. What is Harvey's reaction to what he finds and do you understand his reaction?

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