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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, From the Boundless Deep.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word best describes the foliage on the island at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Sparse.
(b) Poisonous.
(c) Unique.
(d) Desert-like.

2. When the second chain of islands formed in the southeast, how long was it?
(a) Two million miles long.
(b) Two hundred miles long.
(c) Two miles long.
(d) Two thousand miles long.

3. What word best describes the kind of soil eventually created on the island?
(a) Rocky.
(b) Clay-like.
(c) Sandy.
(d) Barren.

4. In comparison with the other land masses on the planet, what best describes these islands?
(a) Colder.
(b) Older.
(c) Bigger.
(d) Younger.

5. What beneficial things may have reached the island by being caught up in the wind?
(a) Monkeys.
(b) Insects.
(c) Bamboo.
(d) Maps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time span is covered in Chapter 1?

2. What causes lava rock to decompose?

3. What body of water serves as the setting for the opening section?

4. What series of natural phenomena are described as the cause of events in the opening section?

5. What is lava?

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