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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is it recorded that the people died?
(a) slowly
(b) tidily
(c) messily
(d) grusomely

2. Why do they want to check out the radio signals?
(a) there might be a break in the fallout
(b) there night be a new source of energy
(c) there might be a human behind them
(d) there might be a clue about the war

3. How do Dwight and Moira avoid thinking about the end?
(a) they talk about the past
(b) they drink too much
(c) they agree not to talk
(d) they talk about next year

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does John keep his fear under control while on the submarine?

2. What does Dwight announce for their next voyage?

3. Who says about Swain that if it had been him and the fishing was good that day, and it was his last day, he wouldn't come back either?

4. How does John Osbourne finish in the first race of the Grand Prix?

5. What does the USS Scorpion find when it emerges near Queensland?

(see the answer key)

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