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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Dwight want to take the USS Scorpion?
(a) under the ice at the Antarctic
(b) back to the United States
(c) around the world one last time
(d) down to Tasmania

2. What does a radiation reading of thirty in the red mean?
(a) lethal immediately upon exposure
(b) safe to be in for a week
(c) not high enough to be immediately lethal
(d) lethal within one or two hours exposure

3. Why does Seaman Swain want to see Edmonds through the periscope?
(a) it is near his hometown
(b) his girlfriend lives there
(c) he went to college there
(d) it is his hometown

4. How do Dwight and Moira avoid thinking about the end?
(a) they talk about next year
(b) they agree not to talk
(c) they talk about the past
(d) they drink too much

5. What amenity is given to Dwight?
(a) a Navy car and driver
(b) a second liaison officer
(c) a suite at a 4-star hotel
(d) unlimited use of the OC

6. What does Swain do without being seen?
(a) sends food out the torpedo shaft in case someone is alive
(b) gets out of the USS Scorpion and head for Edmonds
(c) hangs himself in the engine room
(d) steals a gun from the commander's quarters

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

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

9. Why are there more cars on the road now?
(a) people are no longer saving fuel
(b) the government is giving away fuel
(c) a new source of fuel is found
(d) people are trying to kill themselves in car accidents

10. Where does John tell Peter the radiation sickness is now?
(a) in Canberra
(b) in Perth
(c) in Wellington
(d) in Tasmania

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

12. What is Dwight's condition when he arrives at Moira's house?
(a) very flippant
(b) very happy
(c) very depressed
(d) very ill

13. Why does John want the Grand Prix race moved up to August 10th?
(a) August 17th is the shortest day of the year
(b) August 17th is too cold
(c) August 17th may be too late
(d) August 17th is John's birthday

14. What is John's most recent prognosis for the radiation cloud?
(a) it looks like it will stop
(b) it appears to be weakening
(c) it seems to be coming a little faster
(d) it has slowed down

15. Why do they conclude that the city around the Naval Yard shows almost no damage?
(a) because of a thermal inversion
(b) because of its location
(c) because of anti-missile defenses
(d) because its location is secret

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John Osbourne look forward to after the next submarine trip?

2. Why do they want to check out the radio signals?

3. What are Peter and Mary doing now?

4. When there is meat at the butcher shop, how much do they have to pay?

5. Where do they think there are no people living?

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