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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Mary begins to understand, what does she continue to do?

2. What is the reason Jennifer keeps crying?

3. After dinner, where do Dwight and Moira go?

4. Where is the radiation sickness by August?

5. After the Gallery, where does Dwight go?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Moira changing from thinking planting plants for the next year is a silly waste of time?

2. What is it that Moira agrees to do for Mary if Peter does not return in time?

3. Why do things begin to slow down in Melbourne?

4. How is John Osbourne able to race his car so much?

5. What is Mary's initial reaction to the suicide pills and syringe?

6. Explain Dwight's change of status on the return trip from the north.

7. Why is Dwight upset over a painting at the National Gallery?

8. What has Moira managed to locate that makes Dwight happy enough to drift off to sleep?

9. What condition does Peter put on his continuing service in the Navy?

10. Explain the surprise Moira has for Dwight when they meet for lunch.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about pure love. It is clear that Moira is in love with Dwight. Leading up to her introduction to him, she is described as having lived a promiscuous life. What is it in the relationship between her and Dwight that prevents her from attempting to seduce him.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about what visitors from another planet find on earth 100 years after ON THE BEACH. In your essay tell what they find and how they speculate what happened to all the people. Use you imagination and be creative.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the possibility of the same world-wide destruction of all life on the planet could ever really happen. In your essay include the fact that today, just as Shute predicted, small radical nations now have nuclear capability. What is the danger of everything going too far when split second decisions have to be made about using the nuclear arsenal.

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