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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 GPR stand for that is used by the scientists to see if the glacier has saltwater?

2. Who believes that the sight of the submarine approaching them in the water was a hallucination?

3. What does Rachel have in her pocket that will tell the truth about the meteorite if they die in the ocean?

4. What is the name of the NASA administrator who greets Rachel at the glacier?

5. What does Tench believe will just be a bonus to ensure Herney wins the presidency?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ekstrom do after a NASA technician finds Dr. Ming's dead body?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What does Marjorie Tench do to Rachel when she receives a call from her from the submarine just before the president's press conference?

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

7. How does Dr. Charles Brophy die?

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

9. How are the Delta Force described when they are first seen in the book?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the role of the Delta Force of the book. What about the Delta Force's missions in the book note the seriousness of the secret they were keeping and the power of the players involved?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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