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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 is the name of Senator Sexton's campaign assistant?
2. What is Rachel's job at the White House?
3. What does Delta One throw at Rachel and the others that makes the glacier break away and drop in the ocean?
4. What does the president wish Rachel to do for his staff when he speaks with her over video link?
5. What does Rachel develop a fear of as a child?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Senator Sexton receive the classified information regarding NASA that he uses to discredit his opponents?
2. Describe the conversation between the president and Marjorie Tench when she suggests going to a CNN debate with Sexton instead of him?
3. How does Rachel send a message to the NRO while in frozen water?
4. 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?
5. How does Gabrielle get into Senator Sexton's apartment during his meeting with the private space companies?
6. What is the nature of Rachel's visit with the president aboard Air Force One?
7. How does Michael help Rachel and Corky escape the Delta Force on the meteorite?
8. What is the nature of Ekstrom and Marjorie Tench's phone conversation in Chapter 75?
9. What does Rachel realize when she is shot with an ice bullet on the meteorite?
10. How do Michael and Corky describe how to distinguish a meteorite to Rachel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Rachel with her father Senator Sexton in the book. What is telling of the impact Rachel's mother played in her life based on her differences from her father in the book?
Essay Topic 2
Examine Rachel's fear of open water in the book. What purpose does the author have for giving one of the protagonists such a debilitating fear 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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