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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disturbs Dwight about one painting?
(a) the woman in the painting looks like Sharon, his wife
(b) it is bright, cheerful, and unreal
(c) it reminds him of his home in Mystic
(d) it looks like New York destroyed by the bombs

2. Why does Mr. Davidson think people are not migrating south ahead of the radiation?
(a) not enough publicity had time to get to everyone
(b) they think the radiation will weaken quickly
(c) they do not really believe it is going to happen to them
(d) they have no idea where to go

3. Why is the USS Scorpion able to sail in spite of the fuel shortage?
(a) it runs on coal
(b) it has large reserve tanks
(c) it makes fuel from sea water
(d) it is nuclear powered

4. What do they notice about most of the houses?
(a) damage that looks like a cyclone came through
(b) not much damage but no signs of life
(c) all the paint peeled off the houses
(d) most roofs blown off of houses

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do they conclude that the city around the Naval Yard shows almost no damage?

3. How does Peter explain the need for her to know about the pills?

4. What happens that night at Peter's and Mary's house?

5. Why does Dwight think forty percent of his crew will not return to the Scorpion?

(see the answer key)

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