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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moira call the submarine trips into the Northern hemisphere?
(a) looking for busy work
(b) looking for needles in a haystack
(c) looking at dead people through a periscope
(d) looking for ships that never come in

2. Why does Moira think going to school is ridiculous?
(a) she is too old to learn
(b) there are no jobs anymore
(c) she never liked going to school
(d) there will be no time to use what she learns

3. What are the people of Melbourne doing to cope with the reality of pending death?
(a) attending church services
(b) pretending the threat does not exist
(c) having boisterous, uninhibited and lighthearted parties
(d) having large family reunions

4. Why are they forbidden to go to Townsville?
(a) the army is going there
(b) the people are dying and cannot be helped
(c) there is no docking facility there
(d) there is not enough time to waste there

5. Who knows about the destination for the upcoming trip of the USS Scorpion according to Dwight?
(a) everyone except him
(b) only Peter, John, and him
(c) only John Osbourne who carries sealed orders
(d) only Peter and him who have told Mary and Moira

6. In Australia, what do they figure will go a little before Sydney?
(a) Melbourne
(b) Tasmania
(c) Perth
(d) Cape Town

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

8. How long as it been since Peter had an assignment?
(a) a year
(b) a year and a half
(c) seven months
(d) seventeen months

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

10. Why does Peter not take the car to Melbourne?
(a) the car refuses to start
(b) there is very little gasoline left in the country
(c) the car needs some new parts
(d) the tires are flat

11. How does Dwight want to think about people in the Northern hemisphere?
(a) that they are all headed south
(b) that they have gone underground
(c) that the war never happened
(d) that they are all alive

12. How do Moira and Dwight get to know each other better?
(a) swimming in the ocean
(b) sleeping in the same bed
(c) going over their personal histories
(d) taking long, silent walks

13. What does Moira's father ask Dwight?
(a) if he will leave before the radiation arrives
(b) if he plans to move his ship further south
(c) if he plans to sink his ship
(d) if he will stay to the end on the farm

14. What are Peter and Mary doing while Dwight and Moira attend church?
(a) planning a garden
(b) digging a cellar
(c) sailing a boat
(d) going for a swim

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is it recorded that the people died?

2. How did the war escalate?

3. What has Peter rigged up to carry the baby or groceries?

4. Where do Lt. Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy, his wife Mary, and baby daughter Jennifer live?

5. What does the Prime Minister say they want from Dwight and his crew?

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