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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 have the Delta Force been authorized to protect regarding the Milne Ice Shelf?

2. What is the name of the content editor for ABC who is a friend of Gabrielle?

3. Where is Gabrielle instructed to meet her NASA informant at the White House?

4. What is the name of the paleontologist hired by the president to verify the meteorite?

5. What is the name of the captain of the USS Charlotte?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Senator Sexton receive the classified information regarding NASA that he uses to discredit his opponents?

2. How is the Delta Force's mission described in Chapter 15?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. How does Yolanda react when Gabrielle tells her she wishes to go public with her affair with Senator Sexton?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the nature of the meteorite in the book. What purpose might the author have for centering the major conflict in the book around a meteorite?

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

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?

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