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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the USS Swordfish leave Rio for Montevideo?
(a) they think some people are alive in Montevideo
(b) radiation gets too hot in Rio
(c) radiation has not reached Montevideo
(d) they need a change of scenery

2. What is at the Pastoral Club that Sir Froude wants to help eliminate?
(a) the girlie floorshow
(b) uncouth new members
(c) over three thousand bottles of vintage port
(d) the antique furniture

3. After the Gallery, where does Dwight go?
(a) shopping for gifts for his family
(b) to see John's Ferreri
(c) back to the Holmes' bungalow
(d) to the farm with Moira

4. What are Peter and Mary doing while Dwight and Moira attend church?
(a) planning a garden
(b) sailing a boat
(c) going for a swim
(d) digging a cellar

5. What has happened at the outset of the novel?
(a) news media reports a pending nuclear war
(b) the people of Melbourne, Australia, hold car races
(c) nuclear destruction of the Northern hemisphere
(d) the USS Scorpion is lost at sea

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do they estimate Swain will live?

2. What are the people of Melbourne doing to cope with the reality of pending death?

3. Why does the USS Swordfish not come to Australia?

4. What does Moira's father ask Dwight?

5. Although radiation has reached Townsville, northern Australia, what is the situation?

(see the answer key)

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