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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. How deeply was the island submerged?
(a) Twelve dozen feet.
(b) Twelve inches.
(c) Twelve feet.
(d) Twelve hundred feet.

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

3. What series of natural phenomena are described as the cause of events in the opening section?
(a) Hurricanes.
(b) Volcanic eruptions.
(c) Blizzards.
(d) Avalanches.

4. 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.

5. Once an island is formed, what can further eruptions cause?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Cliffs.
(c) All of the given answers.
(d) Valleys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is trapped in the rocks because of how they are formed?

2. When the island submerged, what formed over it?

3. What causes lava rock to decompose?

4. In comparison with the other land masses on the planet, what best describes these islands?

5. When the island submerged again, what formed around it?

(see the answer key)

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