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

2. How do Moira and Dwight get to know each other better?
(a) swimming in the ocean
(b) going over their personal histories
(c) sleeping in the same bed
(d) taking long, silent walks

3. What has happened at the outset of the novel?
(a) news media reports a pending nuclear war
(b) the USS Scorpion is lost at sea
(c) the people of Melbourne, Australia, hold car races
(d) nuclear destruction of the Northern hemisphere

4. Where is the USS Swordfish, another nuclear powered submarine?
(a) off the coast of France
(b) in the Persian Gulf
(c) off the coast of South America
(d) down in the Antarctic

5. Who do Peter and Mary invite to their house to keep Dwight entertained?
(a) Moira Davidson
(b) Caroline Moresby
(c) Mary Paul
(d) Jennifer Holmes

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are they forbidden to go to Townsville?

2. What does the Prime Minister say they want from Dwight and his crew?

3. What does Peter instruct Mary how to do if he is not back when the radiation hits?

4. Where does Peter have an appointment?

5. Why is there a shortage of fuel?

(see the answer key)

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