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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. How was the central computer disabled?
(a) It was stolen.
(b) With a sledgehammer.
(c) With a virus.
(d) With a pickax.

2. What was Joan and Henry shot with?
(a) Tranquilizers.
(b) Heroin.
(c) None of these.
(d) A nine millimeter.

3. What was the Friar's warning?
(a) "The Serpent of Eden, may it never be disturbed".
(b) "The Devil in Eden, may it rest for eternity".
(c) "The Serpent of Eden dwells within".
(d) "On pain of death do not set foot here".

4. What does the gold represent?
(a) All of these.
(b) The sweat of the sun.
(c) The tears of the moon.
(d) The God's harvest.

5. Who or what were the Moche?
(a) A kind of liquid metal similar in consistency to mercury.
(b) A strong yet resilient liquid.
(c) A tribe that existed many centuries before the Incas.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the monk expect in his back?

2. What dessert had Henry and Joan shared?

3. Why had the monk come?

4. What is common in many cultures?

5. How far does the carbon dating on the ruins precede the Incas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What strange behavior had the tarantulas adopted?

2. How did Denal save Maggie? How did she respond to this?

3. What idea led Sam to consider the journey across the booby trapped room?

4. What might the group have stopped and appreciated if they weren't hungry and exhausted, fleeing the predatory arachnids?

5. Why did Otera think he would like to hear the American kid beg for his life?

6. What situations led Maggie to be cautious and trust her instinct?

7. Why did Philip wish that he had been trapped down with the other archaeologists?

8. Why might the Incas have put the substance in the head of the corpse?

9. Why did Gil put his pickax through the central computer?

10. Why did the underground structure moan?

(see the answer keys)

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