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

2. Who opened the door?

3. What did Maggie notice about Sam?

4. What did the man do to the part of the garment he had dropped?

5. How old was the man before he died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Monk's final act, and why did he do it?

2. What kind of equipment was in Joan's lab?

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

4. What strange behavior had the tarantulas adopted?

5. Why was the Joan the pathologist sorry to Henry?

6. What had been the instrument of Francisco's escape?

7. What circumstances led to the Monk's temporary dizziness?

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

9. Why did the underground structure moan?

10. Why was the dig team burdened with Philip?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the characters of Friar Otera and Abbot Ruiz. What are their motivations? Are they similar? In what ways are they different? Are either of them men of principle? How or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the fact that Sam cannot remember anything following his death. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Why is that? Is his desire to know what happened understandable? How or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Henry gets an intuitive feeling that something isn't right at the dig site and frantically attempts to contact them, to no avail. Are there any other times that Henry has had a bad intuitive feeling and it has played out in favor of the intuition? How many other intuitive feelings does Henry have that play out in the intuitive?

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