Tunnel in the Sky | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1, The Marching Hordes

1. What is the name of Rod's school?

Patrick Henry High School.

2. What is the final exam for Rod's class, "Advanced Survival"?

Survival on an unknown planet for two to ten days.

3. Who is Rod's only friend in the survival class?

Jimmy Throxton.

4. Rod's friend jokes that their survival instructor would eat what, without salt?

His own grandmother.

5. Why does Rod's friend consider dropping out of the survival course?

He is afraid.

6. Who is the instructor for Rod's survival course?

Deacon Matson.

7. What, according to Rod's instructor, is the most dangerous animal known?

Man.

8. In Chapter 1, how does Rod describe his classmate, Caroline?

A big Zulu girl.

9. Why does Rod's instructor try to discourage him from taking the final exam?

He believes Rod is too emotional and sentimental to be a survivor.

10. Where...
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