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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of animal is trying to steal Jennifer's marten in her father's trap?
(a) Muskrat.
(b) Weasel.
(c) Fox.
(d) Wolverine.

2. How long has Viktor waited to avenge his father's death?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 60 years.
(c) 45 years.
(d) 65 years.

3. How did Dr. Willig's wife die?
(a) Hodgkin's disease.
(b) Parkinson's disease.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Cancer.

4. How did Viktor's mother die?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Firing Squad.
(d) Cancer.

5. How many samples does Connor MacFerran want to core in Chapter 6?
(a) 20.
(b) 25.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

6. How many generators have been preserved at the old Russian ice station?
(a) 37.
(b) 52.
(c) 45.
(d) 26.

7. What nickname is given to the class of submarine that the USS Polar Sentinel belongs to?
(a) Tadpole.
(b) Kitten.
(c) Rat.
(d) Shark.

8. What type of tree branch splinters when a sky diver aims at Matt while he crouches in ambush?
(a) Alder.
(b) Spruce.
(c) Hemlock.
(d) Cedar.

9. When the Omega station is fired upon, how many minutes is the Sentinel from the ice station?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 32 minutes.
(c) 20 miles.
(d) 6 miles.

10. How many levels are there in Ice Station Grendel?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

11. At the beginning of Chapter 7, how far is the Drakon from the surface?
(a) 2 meters.
(b) 4 meters.
(c) 1 meter.
(d) 3 meters.

12. What type of plane does Matt Pike see and then hear as it crashes?
(a) Beech.
(b) Piper.
(c) DeHavilland.
(d) Cessna.

13. How far is the Omega Drift Station from the shore of the polynya?
(a) ¼ mile.
(b) 1/3 mile.
(c) 3/4 mile.
(d) 1/2 mile.

14. What color is the sail on Amanda's ice boat?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

15. How far does the Trans-Alaska Pipeline run from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez?
(a) 750 miles.
(b) 800 miles.
(c) 500 miles.
(d) 1,000 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Snow Eagle place third in the Iditarod?

2. For how many months does the sun not set over the polar ice cap?

3. When did Belinda and Bennie lose a child?

4. How tall is Lee Bently?

5. What time does Matt hear the screams of the sky diver who is killed by grizzlies?

(see the answer keys)

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