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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rachel see the fossilized imprint of when she sees a sample of the meteorite?

2. Who does Marjorie call just before the president's press conference?

3. What are Rachel and the others given once onboard the submarine to warm their bodies?

4. What does Gabrielle's friend say she is most concerned about regarding Gabrielle's decision to come forward with her affair with Senator Sexton?

5. What is the name of the glacier that Rachel lands on in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gabrielle get into Senator Sexton's apartment during his meeting with the private space companies?

2. How is Rachel's conversation with the president via a video link while on the Milne Ice Shelf described?

3. What does Rachel realize when she is shot with an ice bullet on the meteorite?

4. What do the scientists and Rachel discover on the GPR printout of the meteorite?

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

6. How does Dr. Charles Brophy die?

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's use of the storm as a metaphor in the book. In what way did the author relate the metaphor of a storm at both the Milne Ice Shelf and in Washington, D.C. in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the book, the controller has literally been in control of every action that has taken place in the book.

Part 1.) What impact does the controller have on the Delta Force's actions in the book?

Part 2.) What purpose did the author have for having a hidden controller present throughout the entire book?

Part 3.) What is telling about the nature of government conspiracy in the book based on the reveal of William Pickering as the controller?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of President Zackary Herney in the book. In what way does the author create doubt about the goodness of the president in comparison to Senator Sexton?

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