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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Peter stationed when the war started?
(a) on board the H.M.A.S. Anzac
(b) at a radar station in Tasmania
(c) on board the U.S.S. Scorpion
(d) at the Naval Base in Melbourne

2. What happens that night at Peter's and Mary's house?
(a) Moira and Dwight have a huge argument
(b) Dwight and Moira fall in love
(c) Moira gets drunk and has to be put to bed
(d) Dwight gets drunk and has to be put to bed

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

4. How does Dwight want to think about people in the Northern hemisphere?
(a) that they are all alive
(b) that they have gone underground
(c) that the war never happened
(d) that they are all headed south

5. When had Dwight attended a briefing about the threat of war?
(a) the day it started
(b) as early as a year ago
(c) just a week before it started
(d) one month before it broke out

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they figure will go before Melbourne?

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

3. What has happened at the outset of the novel?

4. Why does the USS Swordfish not come to Australia?

5. What have Peter and Mary learned to do because of the shortages?

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