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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gabrielle's reaction after hearing the president's press conference at ABC studios?
(a) Sad.
(b) Happy.
(c) Angry.
(d) Stunned.

2. According to the president during his press conference, how old is the meteorite?
(a) 190 million years.
(b) 75 million years.
(c) 100 million years.
(d) 50 million years.

3. What does Rachel believe NASA has discovered evidence of in Chapter 11?
(a) A new planet.
(b) Terrorist threat.
(c) Extra-terrestrial life.
(d) A space ship.

4. Who believes that the sight of the submarine approaching them in the water was a hallucination?
(a) Corky.
(b) Norah.
(c) Michael.
(d) Rachel.

5. Who tells Pickering that the meteorite is definitely real during a phone conversation with him on the submarine?
(a) Corky.
(b) Norah.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Michael.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the doctor that is on a dog sled in the prologue?

2. At how many feet is the helicopter when the doctor and his dogs are pushed out in the prologue?

3. What had the president done just after a meeting with NASA the previous week according to Senator Sexton and Gabrielle's conversation?

4. What does Rachel tell the president's staff about the information she will tell them?

5. What room in the White House is Gabrielle led to in Chapter 40?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of Ekstrom and Marjorie Tench's phone conversation in Chapter 75?

2. What happens when Gabrielle goes to the East Gate of the White House for a meeting?

3. What does Rachel do aboard the USS Charlotte when she realizes the president is about to have his press conference?

4. How are Rachel, Michael, and Corky rescued from the Arctic Ocean in Chapter 61?

5. Describe the conversation between the president and Marjorie Tench when she suggests going to a CNN debate with Sexton instead of him?

6. How does Michael's wife help him secure his weekly television show?

7. Why does Pickering tell Rachel to wait to tell the president about her findings on the meteorite when she calls him aboard the USS Charlotte?

8. What two reasons does Norah give Rachel for disagreeing with her explanation for PODS not being sensitive enough to pick up saltwater around the glacier?

9. How is Michael's belief of panspermia described in the book?

10. What is the nature of the material Rachel presents to the president's staff in Chapter 35?

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