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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have Peter and Mary learned to do because of the shortages?
(a) raise chickens for eggs
(b) knit socks
(c) make their own butter
(d) weave cloth

2. What are the people of Melbourne doing to cope with the reality of pending death?
(a) having boisterous, uninhibited and lighthearted parties
(b) having large family reunions
(c) pretending the threat does not exist
(d) attending church services

3. What is Mary's chief concern at this point?
(a) keeping the family together
(b) writing letters to family and friends
(c) the safety of the baby
(d) being prepared for company

4. What does Moira call the submarine trips into the Northern hemisphere?
(a) looking for busy work
(b) looking for needles in a haystack
(c) looking at dead people through a periscope
(d) looking for ships that never come in

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the war limited to the Northern hemisphere?

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

3. How long does the USS Swordfish report being submerged that might be a record?

4. What is headed for the Southern hemisphere?

5. Who knows about the destination for the upcoming trip of the USS Scorpion according to Dwight?

(see the answer key)

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