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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen when the radiation covers the Southern hemisphere?
(a) global warming will cause floods
(b) everyone on Earth will be dead
(c) rabbits and dogs will die first
(d) it will be safe to head north

2. When is the radiation expected to reach Australia?
(a) next September
(b) next June or July
(c) next week
(d) next year

3. What is the only sign of life at Queensland?
(a) a camel
(b) a rabbit
(c) a dog
(d) a kangaroo

4. What does Mary do to protect the baby from the measles?
(a) puts up a mosquito net
(b) feeds the baby quinine
(c) takes the baby to the Davidsons
(d) forbids Peter to come home

5. In church on Sunday, what does Dwight think about?
(a) Moira Davidson
(b) what his assignment will be
(c) his family in the United States
(d) how lonely he is

6. What does Dwight say he plans on doing once he returns to Mystic, Connecticut?
(a) opening a shop
(b) getting a sailboat
(c) retiring from the Navy
(d) writing a book

7. What has Peter rigged up to carry the baby or groceries?
(a) a two-wheel carriage for the back of his bicycle
(b) a four-wheel buggy
(c) a little red wagon
(d) a canvas backpack

8. How long as it been since Peter had an assignment?
(a) seven months
(b) seventeen months
(c) a year and a half
(d) a year

9. Where do Lt. Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy, his wife Mary, and baby daughter Jennifer live?
(a) on the Navy Base at Flamouth
(b) in a flat over a pharmacy
(c) in a hotel in Melbourne
(d) in a bungalow not far from Falmouth, Australia

10. What do they figure will go before Melbourne?
(a) Uraguay
(b) Africa and South America
(c) the Maldives
(d) India

11. What is headed for the Southern hemisphere?
(a) guided missiles from the North
(b) planes carrying nuclear bombs
(c) the entire U.S. naval fleet
(d) radiation fallout

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

13. Where was Peter stationed when the war started?
(a) on board the H.M.A.S. Anzac
(b) on board the U.S.S. Scorpion
(c) at a radar station in Tasmania
(d) at the Naval Base in Melbourne

14. How does Dwight react to the country?
(a) it makes him wish for the city
(b) it makes him happy to see the trees again
(c) it makes him sad for America
(d) it makes him wonder if he can do the work

15. Who is in command on the USS Scorpion?
(a) Admiral John Osbourne
(b) Lieutenant Commander Darrel Towers
(c) Captain John Smith
(d) Commander Dwight Towers

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Peter not take the car to Melbourne?

2. What does Osbourne say about the world?

3. What are Peter and Mary doing while Dwight and Moira attend church?

4. Why was the war limited to the Northern hemisphere?

5. What is the southernmost major city in the world?

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