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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peter do as the sub returns to Melbourne?
(a) invites Dwight back to his home
(b) resigns his commission
(c) goes to by presents for Mary and Jennifer
(d) calls Moira to let her know Dwight is back

2. For how long did the Russians and Chinese figure nuclear bombs would render land uninhabitable?
(a) under 20 years
(b) about five years
(c) only a year
(d) more than fifty years

3. How does Peter explain the need for her to know about the pills?
(a) he says it is easier than radiation sickness
(b) he says he might not return
(c) he says she needs to know what others are doing
(d) he says he might get too sick to administer them

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

5. What does Moira decide to do while Dwight is at sea?
(a) buy him some new socks
(b) go racing with John Osbourne
(c) look for the pogo stick he could not find
(d) go stay with Mary and Jennifer

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Peter hoping for?

2. When had Dwight attended a briefing about the threat of war?

3. How does Mary react to the pills?

4. What is headed for the Southern hemisphere?

5. What are the people of Melbourne doing to cope with the reality of pending death?

(see the answer key)

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