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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are they forbidden to go to Townsville?
(a) the people are dying and cannot be helped
(b) the army is going there
(c) there is no docking facility there
(d) there is not enough time to waste there

2. What does Osbourne say about the world?
(a) it will collapse from carbon pollutions
(b) it will become a vast desert planet like Mars
(c) it will go on, there just won't be people
(d) it will disintegrate slowly

3. What does Moira's father ask Dwight?
(a) if he will stay to the end on the farm
(b) if he plans to sink his ship
(c) if he will leave before the radiation arrives
(d) if he plans to move his ship further south

4. Where does Peter have an appointment?
(a) with the Mayor of Melbourne
(b) on the USS Scorpion
(c) at the Naval Hospital
(d) at the Navy Department in Melbourne

5. What assignment does Peter receive?
(a) paymaster for the Royal Australian Navy
(b) communications officer on the USS Swordfish
(c) commander of the H.M.A.S Melbourne
(d) liaison officer on the USS Scorpion

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dwight tell Moira he would like to do?

2. Why does Peter not hold out much hope for a naval assignment?

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

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

5. Where do Lt. Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy, his wife Mary, and baby daughter Jennifer live?

(see the answer key)

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