The Nuclear Age Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Sarah has a particular skill that she begins to apply to their protest, which whips up a lot of support for the group around campus. What is this skill? (from Chapters 5 - 7 )

A photographic memory.

Trumpet playing.

Geology knowledge.

Cheerleading.

2.

How does the gang come to own $25 million, which they split among themselves? (from Chapters 12 - 13)

William receives the money in a legal settlement.

William purchases a mountain in Montana he knows to be full of uranium, then sells it to Texaco.

They find the money in a series of briefcases in a stolen weapons shipment.

They acquire that much money after re-selling weapons they stole from the American military.

3.

What is the private reaction of William's mom and dad to the improvised shelter he made out of a Ping-Pong table? (from Chapters 1 - 4)

They ignore the shelter and William completely.

They laugh at it.

They argue and blame each other for having such an unusual child.

They become concerned about nuclear proliferation, and make plans to build their own shelter.

4.

What would William do in high school, attempting to convince his parents he went on dates? (from Chapters 1 - 4)

Plant fake smudges of lipstick on his shirt collars.

Paid a classmate to pretend to be his girlfriend at family dinners.

Had elaborate calls on the phone -- with nobody on the other line.

Tried out for the football team, since the football players got all the girls.

5.

What does the gang do when William's dad dies in 1971? (from Chapters 10 - 11)

They go to Montana, but secretly observe the funeral from afar.

They cannot break from their missions, but William wires his mother a large sum of money.

William breaks his cover and moves back in with his mom, to comfort her.

The gang does not hear about the death until years after the fact.

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