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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does he convince Mary that taking Jennifer's life might be the best thing to do?
(a) he tells her that angry people might try to shoot the baby
(b) he tells her that the baby would suffer more than they
(c) he tells her that they will all be together after death
(d) he asks her to imagine the baby without her parents

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

5. What does a radiation reading of thirty in the red mean?
(a) safe to be in for a week
(b) lethal immediately upon exposure
(c) not high enough to be immediately lethal
(d) lethal within one or two hours exposure

Short Answer Questions

1. How does John keep his fear under control while on the submarine?

2. How do Dwight and Moira avoid thinking about the end?

3. Why is the USS Scorpion able to sail in spite of the fuel shortage?

4. Who is in command on the USS Scorpion?

5. What is Mary's chief concern at this point?

(see the answer key)

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