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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Dwight want to think about people in the Northern hemisphere?
(a) that the war never happened
(b) that they are all headed south
(c) that they have gone underground
(d) that they are all alive

5. What kind of car does Peter have?
(a) a Morris
(b) a Mini-Cooper
(c) an MG
(d) a Ferrari

6. Why does Peter not take the car to Melbourne?
(a) the car refuses to start
(b) there is very little gasoline left in the country
(c) the tires are flat
(d) the car needs some new parts

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

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

9. What does Dwight encourage Moira to do?
(a) to go to Alcoholics anonymous
(b) to get a job or go to trade school
(c) to plan their meeting after the next voyage
(d) to volunteer at a hsopital

10. How does Peter get to town and to the local farmer for milk?
(a) he rides a pony
(b) he rides a bicycle
(c) he uses roller skates
(d) he walks

11. What plants does Mary want around the house?
(a) ones that they can eat
(b) ones that take years to mature
(c) ones that will come up fast
(d) ones that will survive not being wateres

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

13. What has happened at the outset of the novel?
(a) nuclear destruction of the Northern hemisphere
(b) the USS Scorpion is lost at sea
(c) news media reports a pending nuclear war
(d) the people of Melbourne, Australia, hold car races

14. Why does the USS Swordfish not come to Australia?
(a) it has a leak in the hull and connot submerge
(b) it got contaminated while not submerged
(c) it is carrying a deadly disease
(d) its fuel reactor is broken

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moira call the submarine trips into the Northern hemisphere?

2. What does Peter do as the sub returns to Melbourne?

3. Who do Peter and Mary invite to their house to keep Dwight entertained?

4. What does the USS Scorpion find when it emerges near Queensland?

5. What is Mary's chief concern at this point?

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