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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Peter and Mary doing while Dwight and Moira attend church?
(a) digging a cellar
(b) going for a swim
(c) planning a garden
(d) sailing a boat

2. Who do Peter and John meet at the Pastoral Club in Melbourne?
(a) Moira and Dwight
(b) Sir Douglas Froude, John's great uncle, a retired Lieutenant General
(c) the Prime Minister
(d) the Vice Admiral of the Australian Navy

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

4. What does Dwight say he plans on doing once he returns to Mystic, Connecticut?
(a) opening a shop
(b) getting a sailboat
(c) writing a book
(d) retiring from the Navy

5. Why are they quarantined on the Scorpion for a few days?
(a) to check thoroughly for contamination
(b) an outbreak of measles
(c) to lower the outside radiation levels
(d) just as a precaution

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the USS Swordfish not come to Australia?

2. What does Dwight announce for their next voyage?

3. Why is John Osbourne assigned to the USS Scorpion?

4. Why does it not take long to bring Osbourne on board the submarine?

5. Although radiation has reached Townsville, northern Australia, what is the situation?

(see the answer key)

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