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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moira do in Melbourne?
(a) vows to give up drinking
(b) rents an apartment
(c) meets Dwight at a hotel
(d) tours the USS Scorpion

2. Where do Lt. Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy, his wife Mary, and baby daughter Jennifer live?
(a) in a bungalow not far from Falmouth, Australia
(b) in a hotel in Melbourne
(c) on the Navy Base at Flamouth
(d) in a flat over a pharmacy

3. What is John Osbourne's estimate of how long they have to live?
(a) about six months
(b) about a year
(c) about three months
(d) about a decade

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Peter and John meet at the Pastoral Club in Melbourne?

2. Why is the USS Scorpion able to sail in spite of the fuel shortage?

3. What does the Prime Minister say they want from Dwight and his crew?

4. What weapons were used in the Russian-Chinese war?

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

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