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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. How long did the nuclear war last in the Northern hemisphere?

2. What are Dwight and Peter ordered not to do on the upcoming cruise?

3. Why does the USS Swordfish leave Rio for Montevideo?

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

5. What are Peter and Mary doing while Dwight and Moira attend church?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why have methods of transportation changed in Australia?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is notable about Mary's plans for her garden?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the value of friendships. Using John and Peter as examples, write about the support one gets from making good friendships in life. Sometimes family is not near or for some reason cannot offer the support a good friend has to offer.

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 visitors from another planet find on earth 100 years after ON THE BEACH. In your essay tell what they find and how they speculate what happened to all the people. Use you imagination and be creative.

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