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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dwight say he plans on doing once he returns to Mystic, Connecticut?
(a) getting a sailboat
(b) retiring from the Navy
(c) opening a shop
(d) writing a book

2. What does the USS Scorpion find when it emerges near Queensland?
(a) a derelict tanker
(b) a rubber raft
(c) an abandoned ferry
(d) a fishing boat

3. Why does the USS Swordfish leave Rio for Montevideo?
(a) radiation gets too hot in Rio
(b) they need a change of scenery
(c) radiation has not reached Montevideo
(d) they think some people are alive in Montevideo

4. How is it recorded that the people died?
(a) tidily
(b) messily
(c) grusomely
(d) slowly

5. Why is the USS Scorpion able to sail in spite of the fuel shortage?
(a) it is nuclear powered
(b) it has large reserve tanks
(c) it makes fuel from sea water
(d) it runs on coal

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens that night at Peter's and Mary's house?

2. What sober reflection to the men on the Scorpion have about Cairns, Moresby or Darwin?

3. What does John Osbourne calculate were dropped during the war?

4. After the trail cruise, who comes to inspect the USS Scorpion?

5. Why does Peter ride his bicycle to Mr. Paul's farm?

(see the answer key)

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