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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does it not take long to bring Osbourne on board the submarine?
(a) he will use the ship's equipment
(b) he is in a hurry to get started
(c) most of his equipment is portable
(d) he is passed out drunk and carried onto the ship

4. What does Peter instruct Mary how to do if he is not back when the radiation hits?
(a) kill the baby and herself
(b) head south where he will find her
(c) stay in the house with the doors and windows closed
(d) eat only what they grew in their garden

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John Osbourne calculate were dropped during the war?

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

3. What have Peter and Mary learned to do because of the shortages?

4. What is Peter hoping for?

5. What are Peter and Mary doing while Dwight and Moira attend church?

(see the answer key)

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