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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dwight announce for their next voyage?
(a) looking for underwater places to build a city
(b) looking for inhabitable places in the Arctic
(c) sailing completely around the world
(d) putting a man ashore in protective clothing

2. What does Moira call the submarine trips into the Northern hemisphere?
(a) looking for ships that never come in
(b) looking at dead people through a periscope
(c) looking for busy work
(d) looking for needles in a haystack

3. How is it recorded that the people died?
(a) slowly
(b) messily
(c) grusomely
(d) tidily

4. What is John's uncle doing that he had given up for health reasons?
(a) racing cars
(b) smoking cigars
(c) eating cakes
(d) drinking port

5. How long did the nuclear war last in the Northern hemisphere?
(a) one week
(b) one year
(c) thirty-seven days
(d) six months

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long does Peter say the next trip of the Scorpion will probably take?

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

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

5. How did the war escalate?

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