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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Peter say the next trip of the Scorpion will probably take?
(a) about six months
(b) about one year
(c) about six weeks
(d) about two months

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

3. Why are they quarantined on the Scorpion for a few days?
(a) an outbreak of measles
(b) to check thoroughly for contamination
(c) to lower the outside radiation levels
(d) just as a precaution

4. What does the USS Scorpion discover looking at San Francisco?
(a) the Golden Gate Bridge is down
(b) an aircraft carrier run aground
(c) the trolleys are still running
(d) the radiation is low

5. By radio message, what does Dwight Towers learn he has now become?
(a) coordinator of Australian Civil Defense
(b) the commanding officer of the U.S. Naval forces in all areas
(c) the record holder for staying submerged
(d) a new father

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lt. Sunderstrom go ashore at Elliott Bay?

2. What living thing will outlast people by about a year?

3. How does Moira's father say he wants to go when the time comes?

4. Where is the radiation sickness by August?

5. What are they giving away at the Pastoral Club now?

(see the answer key)

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