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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where are the most southerly cases now, according to John's update?
(a) Kuala Lampur, Shanghai, and Panama city
(b) Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Auckland
(c) Sierra Leon, Rio, and Manilla
(d) Patagonia, Tahiti, and Madagascar

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

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

6. Where is Albury that has a suspected case of radiation sickness?
(a) about 100 miles north of Melbourne
(b) about 50 miles north of Melbourne
(c) about 200 miles north of Melbourne.
(d) about 200 miles west of Melbourne

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who starts the push to get the fishing season moved back in Australia?
(a) John
(b) Peter
(c) Moira
(d) Dwight

13. How does he convince Mary that taking Jennifer's life might be the best thing to do?
(a) he asks her to imagine the baby without her parents
(b) he tells her that the baby would suffer more than they
(c) he tells her that angry people might try to shoot the baby
(d) he tells her that they will all be together after death

14. Where does the crew of the Scorpion see Swain?
(a) walking through the streets of Edmonds
(b) swinging from the flagpole in Edmonds
(c) setting fire to Edmonds
(d) driving a convertible in Edmonds

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does John Osbourne finish in the first race of the Grand Prix?

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

3. After dinner, where do Dwight and Moira go?

4. After the Gallery, where does Dwight go?

5. What does Dwight order the captain of the USS Swordfish to do with his submarine?

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