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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Peter hoping for?
(a) a desk job in Melbourne
(b) assignment to a ship
(c) information about survival
(d) release from the Navy

2. What kind of car does Peter have?
(a) a Morris
(b) a Ferrari
(c) a Mini-Cooper
(d) an MG

3. What are some people putting on top of Mount Kosciusko?
(a) family photographs
(b) a monument
(c) a time capsule
(d) a white flag

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

5. Why was the war limited to the Northern hemisphere?
(a) nothing south of the equator was considered important
(b) the southern hemisphere was not a threat to the north
(c) that was planned for much later
(d) it happened too fast to move south

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moira do in Melbourne?

2. Why does Moira think going to school is ridiculous?

3. What social gathering have Peter and Mary just hosted as the story opens?

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

5. What sober reflection to the men on the Scorpion have about Cairns, Moresby or Darwin?

(see the answer key)

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