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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What assignment does Peter receive?
(a) paymaster for the Royal Australian Navy
(b) communications officer on the USS Swordfish
(c) liaison officer on the USS Scorpion
(d) commander of the H.M.A.S Melbourne

2. What does Moira tell Dwight her occupation is?
(a) waitress
(b) stenography
(c) drinking alcohol
(d) farmer

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

4. When Moira and Dwight meet next, what does she tell him?
(a) she is taking a secretarial course
(b) she is planning a party for his return
(c) she is pregnant
(d) she is going to ask to go with him

5. What does Moira's father ask Dwight?
(a) if he will leave before the radiation arrives
(b) if he will stay to the end on the farm
(c) if he plans to move his ship further south
(d) if he plans to sink his ship

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some people putting on top of Mount Kosciusko?

2. How does Dwight react to the country?

3. What do they notice about most of the houses?

4. In Australia, what do they figure will go a little before Sydney?

5. Why do they want to check out the radio signals?

(see the answer key)

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