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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moira decide to do while Dwight is at sea?
(a) go racing with John Osbourne
(b) go stay with Mary and Jennifer
(c) look for the pogo stick he could not find
(d) buy him some new socks

2. What does Sunderstrom find that he cannot take back to the submarine?
(a) copies of Saturday Evening Post
(b) notes written by dying people
(c) tapes of Buddy Holly
(d) bottles of Mountain Dew

3. What does Dwight tell Moira he would like to do?
(a) to help her father with some of the farm chores
(b) to take her out in the submarine
(c) to marry her before it's too late
(d) to build her a house in the country

4. How long does the USS Swordfish report being submerged that might be a record?
(a) six months
(b) three weeks
(c) forty days
(d) thirty-two days

5. How does Peter explain the need for her to know about the pills?
(a) he says she needs to know what others are doing
(b) he says it is easier than radiation sickness
(c) he says he might get too sick to administer them
(d) he says he might not return

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moira offer to do for Dwight?

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

3. Where does Dwight want to take the USS Scorpion?

4. Why does Peter not hold out much hope for a naval assignment?

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

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