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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dwight order the captain of the USS Swordfish to do with his submarine?
(a) sink her on the high seas
(b) use her for a shelter
(c) give her to the Brazilians
(d) put her in dry dock

2. Where is Edmonds?
(a) fifteen miles south of Seattle
(b) fifteen miles north of Seattle
(c) inside Seattle
(d) fifteen miles east of Seattle

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

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

5. Why can Dwight not go trout fishing?
(a) fishing but the season doesn't start until September 1st
(b) he has no fishing gear
(c) he cannot be that far away from the Scorpion
(d) it is too far to the mountain streams

6. What special fuel does John need for his Ferrari?
(a) unleaded fuel
(b) diesel fuel
(c) ether-alcohol mixture
(d) aviation fuel

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

8. What impractical thing does Mary want Peter to buy?
(a) a fur coat
(b) a lawn mower
(c) a new boat
(d) a light plane

9. 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

10. Who is on the motorboat the sub spots?
(a) a dog is in the boat
(b) a dying old man is in the boat
(c) Sunderstrom is in the boat
(d) Swain is in the bay fishing

11. Under what terms does Peter agree to stay on as Dwight's liaison officer?
(a) he gets a big promotion
(b) he can commute between home and work
(c) he will get his own command next
(d) he can bring his family to live at the Naval yard

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

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

14. What objects does Dwight hold onto to maintain his ties to his family?
(a) a music box and a boomerang
(b) a bracelet and a fishing rod
(c) photographs and letters
(d) a pogo stick and a fishing rod

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where is Albury that has a suspected case of radiation sickness?

4. What is Moira's surprise for Dwight?

5. How long do they estimate Swain will live?

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