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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Prime Minister say they want from Dwight and his crew?
(a) to set some new endurance records
(b) to have a detailed report ready
(c) to find some life in the north
(d) to return in good health

2. What does Moira do in Melbourne?
(a) tours the USS Scorpion
(b) meets Dwight at a hotel
(c) vows to give up drinking
(d) rents an apartment

3. For how long did the Russians and Chinese figure nuclear bombs would render land uninhabitable?
(a) about five years
(b) under 20 years
(c) more than fifty years
(d) only a year

4. 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

5. What social gathering have Peter and Mary just hosted as the story opens?
(a) a sock hop
(b) a family reunion
(c) a formal dinner
(d) a barbecue

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Mr. Davidson think people are not migrating south ahead of the radiation?

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

5. Why was the war limited to the Northern hemisphere?

(see the answer key)

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