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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Peter hoping for?
(a) assignment to a ship
(b) release from the Navy
(c) information about survival
(d) a desk job in Melbourne

2. Why does Peter not hold out much hope for a naval assignment?
(a) there are too many officers ahead of him
(b) there are only seven small ships left in the Navy
(c) there is nothing the ships can do
(d) there is not enough fuel to operate ships

3. When had Dwight attended a briefing about the threat of war?
(a) just a week before it started
(b) one month before it broke out
(c) the day it started
(d) as early as a year ago

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

5. Why is the USS Scorpion able to sail in spite of the fuel shortage?
(a) it makes fuel from sea water
(b) it is nuclear powered
(c) it has large reserve tanks
(d) it runs on coal

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the story take place?

2. Why does the USS Swordfish leave Rio for Montevideo?

3. Why does Osbourne say that perhaps people did not deserve the world?

4. How does Peter get to town and to the local farmer for milk?

5. How long as it been since Peter had an assignment?

(see the answer key)

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