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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rick Delanty's claim to fame?
(a) He discovers the shift in the comet's trajectory.
(b) He will be first black man in space.
(c) He figures out how to divert the comet.
(d) He discovers a shift in the polar region that changes the earth's rotation.

2. What is the Mucho Nombre Ranch?
(a) Not a ranch at all; just a tiny piece of property owned by an old hermit.
(b) A property shared by several families who could never agree on a single name.
(c) A ranch owned by a drug lord.
(d) The place of many lies.

3. What is one thing Russia did in its space program according to Leonilla?
(a) Refused to share technology.
(b) Developed a poor quality fuel.
(c) Banned woman from it.
(d) Put on stunts to impress others.

4. What does Mabel see lightning hit?
(a) The Statue of Liberty.
(b) The Lincoln Memorial.
(c) The St. Louis Arch.
(d) The Washington Monument.

5. Where does Harvey say his son Andy can go?
(a) To visit his grandmother in Wyoming.
(b) To the beach surfing.
(c) To a rock concert in San Jose.
(d) Hiking with the Boy Scouts.

6. What does Barry Price do?
(a) Manages the San Joaquin Nuclear Power Plant.
(b) He is a lawyer for San Joaquin City.
(c) He is another astronomer.
(d) He is chief of police of San Joaquin.

7. What is one problem the nuclear plant is facing?
(a) There has been a meltdown in the past.
(b) One cooling tower has a crack.
(c) Environmentalists are trying to keep the plant from opening.
(d) A uranium-enriched rod has broken.

8. What does Jellison suggest forming?
(a) A vigilante group to keep order.
(b) A council for making decisions.
(c) A group to go out and help others.
(d) A new government with him as president.

9. For what city are the archaeologists searching?
(a) Atlantis.
(b) Krakatoa.
(c) Mims.
(d) Pompeii.

10. What is included in Loretta's survival kit?
(a) Guns and batteries.
(b) Vitamins and sleeping pills.
(c) Pantyhose and make-up.
(d) Chocolate and diet pills.

11. What is Tim Hamner hosting at his home?
(a) A super bowl party.
(b) A party for his daughter's sixteenth birthday.
(c) A party to celebrate he and his wife's anniversary.
(d) A party to watch the documentary about the comet.

12. Who are the Sinanians?
(a) Friends of Harry who live in Los Angeles.
(b) Two more visitors to the Mucho Nombre Ranch.
(c) The Jellison's cook and driver.
(d) A couple who have an entirely automated egg operation.

13. How do the Sinanians die?
(a) They survive the comet hit on their home and are alive.
(b) A motorcycle gang.
(c) A comet lands squarely on their house.
(d) The wife of natural causes and the husband of suicide.

14. What is being handed out in Tujunga?
(a) Ration cards.
(b) Identification badges.
(c) Gas masks.
(d) Permits to travel.

15. What do Tim and Eileen find off the main road?
(a) A way to climb upwards.
(b) A dead woman.
(c) A gravel road.
(d) Two horses grazing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Alim Nassor and his brother, Harold Davis, doing?

2. What does Tim advise the ranger?

3. Where are Major Bennet Rosten and Captain Harold Luce waiting commands.

4. What engulfs the island where Willis and MacDonald are sitting?

5. What does Marty want to do?

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