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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 substance appeared to have caused the mummy's head to explode?

2. What deactivated the gears?

3. What did the group stumble upon?

4. Who had blessed his raiment?

5. About how many feet of rock separate the dig team and air?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What similarity did all the different tribes share?

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

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

6. What was so intriguing about the Friar's mummified remains?

7. What strange behavior had the tarantulas adopted?

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

9. How did Gil feel when he was speaking to the well dressed man?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the usage of pictographs and ideograms. What are they used for? What do they represent? Who used them and why go to all that trouble instead of creating a language and developing it over time, as many other native people did?

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

Discuss the experimentation regarding the mallaqui. Is this ethically correct, to engage in this kind of study with a notably hostile subject? Should the mallaqui be given freedom to live as any other creature? Why or why not?

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