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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moira call the submarine trips into the Northern hemisphere?

2. How long does the USS Swordfish report being submerged that might be a record?

3. What social gathering have Peter and Mary just hosted as the story opens?

4. What does Osbourne say about the world?

5. Why are they quarantined on the Scorpion for a few days?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John Osbourne estimate was the size of the nuclear war that was fought?

2. What is the consensus about which countries actually started the war?

3. How has the war simplified life in Australia to a large extent?

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

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

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

7. Why have methods of transportation changed in Australia?

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

9. What is the reason Sir Froude is drinking wine against his doctor's orders?

10. Why did governments resort to using nuclear weapons?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the value of creativity. Refer to the ways the people of Melbourne adjusted to not having fuel to operate cars and other things they no longer had access to. In your essay write about how creative people can find ways to facilitate life even in extreme situations.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about what should be taught in schools about the dangers of nuclear weapons. Explain how children need to know about those dangers and be encouraged to think of ways they can influence governments to behave rationally about even making nuclear weapons. Express how children worldwide could be enlisted in an effort to get rid of nuclear threats.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about the responsibility people have to others when taking any action. In your essay show how governments did not take into consideration anything but their own greedy desires, never once thinking how their nuclear attacks might affect the entire world. Take it down to a less grand level and write about how even small personal actions my affect not just ourselves but others as well.

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