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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Moira's father say he wants to go when the time comes?
(a) shoot himself in the head
(b) on the veranda with a drink or in his own bed
(c) out in the meadow with his wife
(d) taking a suicide pill

2. What does Dwight say is coming in very evenly all around the world?
(a) the measles
(b) a lowering of temperature
(c) a rise in air temperature
(d) the radiation

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

4. What plants does Mary want around the house?
(a) ones that they can eat
(b) ones that will survive not being wateres
(c) ones that take years to mature
(d) ones that will come up fast

5. What does Moira say about the way people are going on with their lives?
(a) no one believes the end will come
(b) she's not brave enough to do that
(c) keeping busy helps everyone prepare
(d) that's the way Australians are

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the nuclear war last in the Northern hemisphere?

2. Why does Peter not hold out much hope for a naval assignment?

3. Why does Mr. Davidson think people are not migrating south ahead of the radiation?

4. What will happen when the radiation covers the Southern hemisphere?

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

(see the answer key)

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