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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 John's uncle doing that he had given up for health reasons?
(a) drinking port
(b) smoking cigars
(c) racing cars
(d) eating cakes

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

3. Why does Osbourne say that perhaps people did not deserve the world?
(a) we deserve something better
(b) the world has too much to offer
(c) we have been too silly
(d) the animals have more sense

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

5. When does the story take place?
(a) 1957
(b) 1961
(c) 1944
(d) 1970

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Peter have an appointment?

2. What is John Osbourne's estimate of how long they have to live?

3. When had Dwight attended a briefing about the threat of war?

4. What are the people of Melbourne doing to cope with the reality of pending death?

5. What is Mary's chief concern at this point?

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