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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 is Rick Delanty's claim to fame?
(a) He discovers the shift in the comet's trajectory.
(b) He will be first black man in space.
(c) He figures out how to divert the comet.
(d) He discovers a shift in the polar region that changes the earth's rotation.

2. What does Harvey suddenly realize?
(a) His wife is dead.
(b) Loretta needs her medicines.
(c) He does not know where Gordie's wife is.
(d) His son was at school.

3. What does Fred say on his way to jail?
(a) That God told him to do it.
(b) That he is sorry.
(c) Noting.
(d) That he's not worried because the Earth will be destroyed by the comet.

4. For what city are the archaeologists searching?
(a) Pompeii.
(b) Atlantis.
(c) Mims.
(d) Krakatoa.

5. Where does Harvey say his son Andy can go?
(a) To the beach surfing.
(b) To visit his grandmother in Wyoming.
(c) Hiking with the Boy Scouts.
(d) To a rock concert in San Jose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mayor Seitz do?

2. Who is Harvey Randall?

3. What does Dr. Leonilla Alexandrovna Malik want to be doing?

4. How is Loretta?

5. Where are Major Bennet Rosten and Captain Harold Luce waiting commands.

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the comet likened to a hot fudge sundae and what is the consequence of that analogy?

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

3. Do you think Harry is a little crazy for continuing his pursuit to deliver the mail?

4. What demonstrates that the women are handling the situation quite well?

5. How do Tim and Eileen use a clever ruse to make their way through the hysterical crowds?

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

7. What is Harry doing when the comet strikes and what is his response?

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

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

10. What is one repercussion of the "gloom and doom" message preached by Henry Armitage and others?

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