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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he look for as a gift for his daughter?
(a) a pogo stick
(b) a doll house
(c) a set of puzzles
(d) an Australian doll

2. How does Peter explain the need for her to know about the pills?
(a) he says she needs to know what others are doing
(b) he says he might not return
(c) he says he might get too sick to administer them
(d) he says it is easier than radiation sickness

3. What are Peter and Mary doing now?
(a) going to the mountains to ski
(b) laying out flower beds for spring
(c) planning on having another baby
(d) digging a radiation shelter

4. Where do the pinpoint the location of the Seattle transmission?
(a) at Santa Maria
(b) at Half Moon Bay
(c) at the Columbia River
(d) at Seattle airport

5. How does John Osbourne finish in the first race of the Grand Prix?
(a) in first place by a mile
(b) second because of a blown tire
(c) last and out of the competition
(d) second but with a damaged car

6. Besides the suicide pills and syringe, what does Peter bring home?
(a) a little red wagon
(b) new bicycle tires
(c) a green playpen
(d) a bouquet of roses

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

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

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

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

11. 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

12. Why are they not sure about the radiation sickness in Cape Town?
(a) there are no radio stations in Cape Town
(b) there is still radio contact
(c) the Scorpion has not gone there
(d) they have conflicting reports

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

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

15. What living thing will outlast people by about a year?
(a) dogs
(b) rabbits
(c) condors
(d) koalas

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the news on the radio not accurate, according to John?

2. What does John get from the widow of a driver killed in the race?

3. What does a radiation reading of thirty in the red mean?

4. Who starts the push to get the fishing season moved back in Australia?

5. Who says about Swain that if it had been him and the fishing was good that day, and it was his last day, he wouldn't come back either?

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