View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some people putting on top of Mount Kosciusko?
(a) a white flag
(b) a time capsule
(c) a monument
(d) family photographs

2. What does Dwight announce for their next voyage?
(a) looking for inhabitable places in the Arctic
(b) looking for underwater places to build a city
(c) sailing completely around the world
(d) putting a man ashore in protective clothing

3. What is Peter hoping for?
(a) information about survival
(b) a desk job in Melbourne
(c) release from the Navy
(d) assignment to a ship

4. What does the USS Scorpion find when it emerges near Queensland?
(a) a rubber raft
(b) a derelict tanker
(c) a fishing boat
(d) an abandoned ferry

5. What does Moira's father ask Dwight?
(a) if he plans to move his ship further south
(b) if he will leave before the radiation arrives
(c) if he will stay to the end on the farm
(d) if he plans to sink his ship

Short Answer Questions

1. What have Peter and Mary learned to do because of the shortages?

2. In Australia, what do they figure will go a little before Sydney?

3. How does Dwight want to think about people in the Northern hemisphere?

4. Why does Peter not take the car to Melbourne?

5. What does Dwight say is coming in very evenly all around the world?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Peter, a navy lieutenant-commander, has not worked for the past seven months.

2. Tell what is known about the global nuclear war.

3. Describe what the USS Scorpion crew sees everywhere they go.

4. Explain where is it deemed possible that life might actually be able to continue on Earth?

5. Explain Moira's answer that she will face the facts of life next September.

6. What is the problem with Moira's ability to understand what has happened in the world?

7. Describe briefly what the story is about.

8. What does Moira learn about Dwight while touring the submarine?

9. How does the USS Swordfish illustrate the movement of the radiation?

10. What is Dwight's experience in church the weekend he spends with Peter and Mary?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 596 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample