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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only sign of life at Queensland?
(a) a dog
(b) a kangaroo
(c) a camel
(d) a rabbit

2. What does Osbourne say about the world?
(a) it will collapse from carbon pollutions
(b) it will become a vast desert planet like Mars
(c) it will disintegrate slowly
(d) it will go on, there just won't be people

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

4. Who do Peter and John meet at the Pastoral Club in Melbourne?
(a) the Vice Admiral of the Australian Navy
(b) the Prime Minister
(c) Sir Douglas Froude, John's great uncle, a retired Lieutenant General
(d) Moira and Dwight

5. What is John's uncle doing that he had given up for health reasons?
(a) eating cakes
(b) smoking cigars
(c) drinking port
(d) racing cars

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Mary's chief concern at this point?

3. Besides the suicide pills and syringe, what does Peter bring home?

4. What does Peter do as the sub returns to Melbourne?

5. What was the final conclusion about who started the war?

(see the answer key)

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