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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mr. Davidson think people are not migrating south ahead of the radiation?
(a) they think the radiation will weaken quickly
(b) they have no idea where to go
(c) not enough publicity had time to get to everyone
(d) they do not really believe it is going to happen to them

2. What does Dwight announce for their next voyage?
(a) looking for underwater places to build a city
(b) sailing completely around the world
(c) putting a man ashore in protective clothing
(d) looking for inhabitable places in the Arctic

3. Why does Swain not take the gun offered him?
(a) he wants to go like his family
(b) he says he will drown himself
(c) he has one of his own
(d) he doesn't think he will die

4. What does Sunderstrom find that he cannot take back to the submarine?
(a) tapes of Buddy Holly
(b) notes written by dying people
(c) copies of Saturday Evening Post
(d) bottles of Mountain Dew

5. What is John Osbourne's estimate of how long they have to live?
(a) about a decade
(b) about three months
(c) about a year
(d) about six months

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had the Swordfish done that everyone was talking about?

3. When Moira and Dwight meet next, what does she tell him?

4. What does Dwight say is coming in very evenly all around the world?

5. Why does Osbourne say that perhaps people did not deserve the world?

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