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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peter instruct Mary how to do if he is not back when the radiation hits?
(a) eat only what they grew in their garden
(b) head south where he will find her
(c) kill the baby and herself
(d) stay in the house with the doors and windows closed

2. How is it recorded that the people died?
(a) tidily
(b) messily
(c) slowly
(d) grusomely

3. What does Dwight say is coming in very evenly all around the world?
(a) the measles
(b) a rise in air temperature
(c) a lowering of temperature
(d) the radiation

4. What is at the Pastoral Club that Sir Froude wants to help eliminate?
(a) uncouth new members
(b) the antique furniture
(c) over three thousand bottles of vintage port
(d) the girlie floorshow

5. How long does Peter say the next trip of the Scorpion will probably take?
(a) about six months
(b) about six weeks
(c) about two months
(d) about one year

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moira tell Dwight her occupation is?

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

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

4. What does John Osbourne calculate were dropped during the war?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do some people hold the hope that one day humans will again populate the Earth?

3. What is of special interest about the radio signals coming from around Seattle?

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

5. How does the relationship between Dwight and Moira develop?

6. Why have people grown accustomed to the radiation coming their way and just go about their regular business?

7. How has the boisterous revelry of the townspeople changed over the past year?

8. In what way does Dwight hold out some hope for the situation?

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

10. How does Shute explain the proliferation of atomic weapons?

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