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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have Peter and Mary learned to do because of the shortages?
(a) knit socks
(b) make their own butter
(c) raise chickens for eggs
(d) weave cloth

2. Why are they quarantined on the Scorpion for a few days?
(a) an outbreak of measles
(b) to check thoroughly for contamination
(c) to lower the outside radiation levels
(d) just as a precaution

3. What had the Swordfish done that everyone was talking about?
(a) It pulled into its home port and found no one alive
(b) diffused a nuclear bomb that had not exploded
(c) sunk a Russian nuclear sub
(d) broken the ice at the South Pole

4. What does Dwight encourage Moira to do?
(a) to go to Alcoholics anonymous
(b) to get a job or go to trade school
(c) to volunteer at a hsopital
(d) to plan their meeting after the next voyage

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen when the radiation covers the Southern hemisphere?

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

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

4. Why does Osbourne say that perhaps people did not deserve the world?

5. Who knows about the destination for the upcoming trip of the USS Scorpion according to Dwight?

(see the answer key)

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