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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sober reflection to the men on the Scorpion have about Cairns, Moresby or Darwin?
(a) the cities will fall into the sea
(b) they will be the last humans to ever see them
(c) only dogs and wild animals will live there
(d) they will return to collect the dead

2. Who starts the push to get the fishing season moved back in Australia?
(a) Moira
(b) John
(c) Dwight
(d) Peter

3. What is Moira's surprise for Dwight?
(a) tickets to the opera
(b) a pogo stick
(c) a new sailboat
(d) a boomerang

4. What is John's most recent prognosis for the radiation cloud?
(a) it looks like it will stop
(b) it seems to be coming a little faster
(c) it has slowed down
(d) it appears to be weakening

5. What does Dwight announce for their next voyage?
(a) putting a man ashore in protective clothing
(b) looking for underwater places to build a city
(c) sailing completely around the world
(d) looking for inhabitable places in the Arctic

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are they quarantined on the Scorpion for a few days?

2. What is Dwight's condition when he arrives at Moira's house?

3. Meanwhile, what is John Osbourne doing?

4. What gift does he buy for his son?

5. What does John Osbourne calculate were dropped during the war?

(see the answer key)

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