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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen when the radiation covers the Southern hemisphere?
(a) global warming will cause floods
(b) everyone on Earth will be dead
(c) rabbits and dogs will die first
(d) it will be safe to head north

2. How long does the USS Swordfish report being submerged that might be a record?
(a) forty days
(b) three weeks
(c) six months
(d) thirty-two days

3. What has happened at the outset of the novel?
(a) news media reports a pending nuclear war
(b) the USS Scorpion is lost at sea
(c) the people of Melbourne, Australia, hold car races
(d) nuclear destruction of the Northern hemisphere

4. What weapons were used in the Russian-Chinese war?
(a) hydrogen and cobalt bombs
(b) siberians and mongals
(c) dirty bombs
(d) small atomic warheads

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Moira think going to school is ridiculous?

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

3. What does Osbourne say about the world?

4. What is the only sign of life at Queensland?

5. What was the final conclusion about who started the war?

(see the answer key)

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