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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the source of the mysterious radio signal Sunderstrom is looking for?
(a) a bobble-head figure lying on its side
(b) a fallen curtrain rod moved by the wind
(c) a tennis ball rolling around on the desk
(d) a broken casement rolling on a Coke bottle

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

3. When do Broken Hill and Perth go out because of the radiation?
(a) in the beginning of July
(b) on Peter's birthday
(c) in late June
(d) the day the Scorpion returns

4. What does John get from the widow of a driver killed in the race?
(a) his pit crew
(b) all his tools
(c) his two trailer
(d) a new car

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

6. What does John Osbourne tell Dwight?
(a) the Australian Game and Wildlife is very strict
(b) under the circumstances he should go fishing anyway
(c) he knows a secret place where no one ever goes
(d) they only give you a ticket and confiscate your fish

7. Why does Swain not take the gun offered him?
(a) he wants to go like his family
(b) he doesn't think he will die
(c) he has one of his own
(d) he says he will drown himself

8. In spite of the news, what are Peter and Mary doing?
(a) discussing narcissus for the garden for next year
(b) planning a vacation
(c) riding their bicycles
(d) taking the baby to the beach

9. What does Sunderstrom find that he cannot take back to the submarine?
(a) notes written by dying people
(b) tapes of Buddy Holly
(c) bottles of Mountain Dew
(d) copies of Saturday Evening Post

10. When there is meat at the butcher shop, how much do they have to pay?
(a) a gallon of fuel per pound
(b) nothing if they have no cash
(c) ten times what it was a year ago
(d) triple normal prices

11. What does Moira decide to do while Dwight is at sea?
(a) go racing with John Osbourne
(b) go stay with Mary and Jennifer
(c) look for the pogo stick he could not find
(d) buy him some new socks

12. Where do they think there are no people living?
(a) Tierra del Fuego
(b) Siberia
(c) Papua New Guinea
(d) Antarctica

13. How does John tell Peter the radiation sickness goes?
(a) like nothing unusual is happening
(b) long and lingering
(c) slow and painless
(d) quickly at the end

14. How does Lt. Sunderstrom go ashore at Elliott Bay?
(a) in a plastic bubble
(b) in a radiation suit
(c) in a mini-sub
(d) in a space suit

15. What does John Osbourne look forward to after the next submarine trip?
(a) drinking port with his uncle
(b) asking Moira to marry him
(c) taking a road trip
(d) three months of auto racing

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dwight's condition when he arrives at Moira's house?

2. Where are strange radio signals coming from?

3. What special fuel does John need for his Ferrari?

4. What good news does Moira tell Dwight?

5. What do they notice about most of the houses?

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