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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What assignment does Peter receive?
(a) paymaster for the Royal Australian Navy
(b) commander of the H.M.A.S Melbourne
(c) liaison officer on the USS Scorpion
(d) communications officer on the USS Swordfish

2. What is at the Pastoral Club that Sir Froude wants to help eliminate?
(a) over three thousand bottles of vintage port
(b) the antique furniture
(c) the girlie floorshow
(d) uncouth new members

3. How does Peter get to town and to the local farmer for milk?
(a) he rides a bicycle
(b) he rides a pony
(c) he walks
(d) he uses roller skates

4. How long does Peter say the next trip of the Scorpion will probably take?
(a) about two months
(b) about six months
(c) about one year
(d) about six weeks

5. Why does the USS Swordfish not come to Australia?
(a) it got contaminated while not submerged
(b) its fuel reactor is broken
(c) it is carrying a deadly disease
(d) it has a leak in the hull and connot submerge

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dwight tell Moira about a submarine scouting trip up the east coast of America?

2. Why was the war limited to the Northern hemisphere?

3. How does Dwight want to think about people in the Northern hemisphere?

4. Where is the USS Swordfish, another nuclear powered submarine?

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

(see the answer key)

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