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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long as it been since Peter had an assignment?
(a) a year
(b) a year and a half
(c) seven months
(d) seventeen months

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

3. What is headed for the Southern hemisphere?
(a) guided missiles from the North
(b) planes carrying nuclear bombs
(c) radiation fallout
(d) the entire U.S. naval fleet

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

5. When is the radiation expected to reach Australia?
(a) next year
(b) next week
(c) next June or July
(d) next September

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Dwight and Peter ordered not to do on the upcoming cruise?

2. What does Moira do in Melbourne?

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

4. Where is the USS Swordfish, another nuclear powered submarine?

5. What does Dwight encourage Moira to do?

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