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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 Peter ride his bicycle to Mr. Paul's farm?
(a) to ask for a job
(b) to get milk and cream
(c) to buy lettuce and tomatoes
(d) to sell eggs

2. After the trail cruise, who comes to inspect the USS Scorpion?
(a) Vice Admiral, Sir David Hartman
(b) the Prime Minister
(c) former general, Sir Douglas Froude
(d) the Mayor of Melbourne

3. 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

4. Why does Osbourne say that perhaps people did not deserve the world?
(a) the animals have more sense
(b) we have been too silly
(c) the world has too much to offer
(d) we deserve something better

5. Where is the USS Swordfish, another nuclear powered submarine?
(a) off the coast of South America
(b) in the Persian Gulf
(c) off the coast of France
(d) down in the Antarctic

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long did the Russians and Chinese figure nuclear bombs would render land uninhabitable?

2. Why does Swain not take the gun offered him?

3. Where was Peter stationed when the war started?

4. Where do the pinpoint the location of the Seattle transmission?

5. Why does Dwight think forty percent of his crew will not return to the Scorpion?

(see the answer key)

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