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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. Where does Dwight want to take the USS Scorpion?

2. By radio message, what does Dwight Towers learn he has now become?

3. Why do they want to check out the radio signals?

4. Where does the crew of the Scorpion see Swain?

5. Where do they think there are no people living?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Moira managed to locate that makes Dwight happy enough to drift off to sleep?

2. What is it that Moira agrees to do for Mary if Peter does not return in time?

3. Explain what prevents Dwight from going fishing for trout before September 1st.

4. How is Moira changing from thinking planting plants for the next year is a silly waste of time?

5. What does Lt. Sunderstrom do before shutting down the communications center at the Naval Base at Elliott Bay.

6. On the long voyage of the Scorpion, what are they able to learn about San Francisco?

7. How is John Osbourne able to race his car so much?

8. What is the understanding between Dwight and Moira that is verbalized on their fishing trip?

9. How is John Osbourne different in the face of coming death?

10. How does Mary put out of her mind that Sydney and Adelaide now have the radiation sickness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an essay on suicide as a way of avoiding an otherwise very painful death. Include the moral aspects of suicide in general and explain whether or not you think there may be extenuating circumstances that make suicide acceptable.

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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