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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, From the Boundless Deep.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What beneficial object may have reached the island in bird excrement?
(a) A message.
(b) Medicine.
(c) A plant seed.
(d) Fire.

2. What is an accurate description of the earliest beaches?
(a) Sand covered by tall trees.
(b) Bare rock with no sand.
(c) Rock covered by small bushes.
(d) Rock covered by sand dunes.

3. When the island submerged, what formed over it?
(a) An arch.
(b) Ice.
(c) A tide pool.
(d) Clouds.

4. When Jesus and Mohammed were alive, what stage were the islands at?
(a) Fire-ravaged.
(b) Still forming.
(c) Not even begun.
(d) Completely formed.

5. What is an accurate description of the earliest body of water?
(a) Calm and stagnant.
(b) Completely warm and tropical.
(c) Partly cold with some ice.
(d) Completely frozen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far below the surface did fissures form?

2. What does decomposed lava rock create?

3. What causes lava rock to decompose?

4. What is lava?

5. What series of natural phenomena are described as the cause of events in the opening section?

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