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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the reason Jennifer keeps crying?
(a) she is teething and running a fever
(b) she is hungry
(c) she hates the playpen
(d) she wants to go to the beach

3. Although Mary begins to understand, what does she continue to do?
(a) raging at Peter
(b) digging up the garden to burn
(c) things that will be needed next year
(d) drinking a lot

4. What had the Swordfish done that everyone was talking about?
(a) diffused a nuclear bomb that had not exploded
(b) It pulled into its home port and found no one alive
(c) sunk a Russian nuclear sub
(d) broken the ice at the South Pole

5. After the trail cruise, who comes to inspect the USS Scorpion?
(a) the Prime Minister
(b) the Mayor of Melbourne
(c) Vice Admiral, Sir David Hartman
(d) former general, Sir Douglas Froude

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Davidson think people are not migrating south ahead of the radiation?

2. How does Peter explain the need for her to know about the pills?

3. Why does Seaman Swain want to see Edmonds through the periscope?

4. After the war, where was a conference held to assess the situation?

5. What sober reflection to the men on the Scorpion have about Cairns, Moresby or Darwin?

(see the answer key)

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