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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 is at the Pastoral Club that Sir Froude wants to help eliminate?
2. How long did the nuclear war last in the Northern hemisphere?
3. What does Peter do as the sub returns to Melbourne?
4. Where was Peter stationed when the war started?
5. In church on Sunday, what does Dwight think about?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is of special interest about the radio signals coming from around Seattle?
2. What is the reason Sir Froude is drinking wine against his doctor's orders?
3. In what way does Dwight hold out some hope for the situation?
4. What is Moira's objection to Dwight's suggestion that she go to school?
5. Describe Moira's attitude toward life.
6. How does the USS Swordfish illustrate the movement of the radiation?
7. Why have people grown accustomed to the radiation coming their way and just go about their regular business?
8. What does it mean that the people had all died tidily?
9. What is the problem with Moira's ability to understand what has happened in the world?
10. Explain Moira's answer that she will face the facts of life next September.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay about optimism as the mirror image of denial. Express the difference between optimism and denial. Give examples from the novel that indicate an optimism that something might happen to prevent the approaching radiation cloud from reaching Melbourne.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay on the absurdity of nuclear armament. In your essay discuss why governments still stockpile nuclear weapons after what was learned at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Express whether you think nuclear weapons will ever be abandoned all over the word.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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