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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dwight say is coming in very evenly all around the world?
(a) the radiation
(b) a rise in air temperature
(c) a lowering of temperature
(d) the measles

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

3. For how long did the Russians and Chinese figure nuclear bombs would render land uninhabitable?
(a) under 20 years
(b) more than fifty years
(c) about five years
(d) only a year

4. What sober reflection to the men on the Scorpion have about Cairns, Moresby or Darwin?
(a) they will be the last humans to ever see them
(b) only dogs and wild animals will live there
(c) they will return to collect the dead
(d) the cities will fall into the sea

5. Why are they quarantined on the Scorpion for a few days?
(a) to check thoroughly for contamination
(b) just as a precaution
(c) to lower the outside radiation levels
(d) an outbreak of measles

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter instruct Mary how to do if he is not back when the radiation hits?

2. What does Mary do to protect the baby from the measles?

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

4. What does Dwight say he plans on doing once he returns to Mystic, Connecticut?

5. When does the story take place?

(see the answer key)

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