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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Glinn attempting to secure during his military career that caused the loss of his entire team, minus himself and Garza, as Amira tells it in Chapter 11?
(a) A bridge.
(b) A village.
(c) A hill.
(d) A military camp.

2. What happens in Chapter 33 when Glinn orders the power stopped to all the jacks under the meteorite?
(a) The jacks fall too quickly.
(b) The jacks fail.
(c) The jacks drop the meteorite.
(d) The jacks lock up.

3. Why does Masangkay touch his find in Chapter 1?
(a) He wants to see if it is real.
(b) He wants to take energy from it.
(c) He is excited.
(d) He wants to lift it out of the ground.

4. Why does Palmer Lloyd go to the Kalahari Desert to see Sam McFarlane in Chapter 4?
(a) To ask him to head his new science museum.
(b) To ask him to finish Masangkay's expedition.
(c) To ask him to to ask Masangkay to sell Lloyd his latest discovery.
(d) To ask him to organize an expedition to recover a meteorite.

5. What natural landmark marks the area where Masangkay made his camp?
(a) A large boulder.
(b) A huge oak tree.
(c) A valley in the snowfield.
(d) A small pine tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an island of stability?

2. What did Nestor Masangkay call Isla Desolacion?

3. In Chapter 13 Glinn claims they have legal right to take the meteorite despite their desire to keep the meteorite secret. How is this true?

4. How does Glinn plan to keep the meteorite stable during travel?

5. Who, in Chapter 12, makes the loudest objection to the banned beverage?

(see the answer key)

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