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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what temperature does seawater freeze?
(a) 32 degrees.
(b) 35 degrees.
(c) 26.4 degrees.
(d) 28.6 degrees.

2. What book is Viktor Petkov reading in Chapter 3?
(a) Notes from Underground.
(b) The Brothers Karamazov.
(c) Crime and Punishment.
(d) House of the Dead.

3. What year did a submarine first cross the Arctic Ocean and pass under the North Pole?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1962.

4. Where did Lacy Devlin attend graduate school?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Dartmouth.
(c) Yale.
(d) Stanford.

5. How did Amanda Reynolds lose her hearing?
(a) A birth defect.
(b) Repeated ear infections.
(c) In a car accident.
(d) The result of a childhood disease.

6. How old is Viktor?
(a) 72.
(b) 59.
(c) 64.
(d) 47.

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

8. How many men arrive on snowmobiles when Jenny lands the plane at the polar ice cap?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

9. How many dogs does Jennifer use on her sled when she checks her father's trapline?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 16.

10. Where does Jenny's father suggest they go when they cannot land at Prudhoe Bay?
(a) Camden Bay.
(b) Natuakruk Lake.
(c) Avatanak.
(d) Kaktovik.

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

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

13. According to MacFerran, how old is the ice at the level where the walking whale was found?
(a) 50,000 years.
(b) 75,000 years.
(c) 12,000 years.
(d) 45,000 years.

14. How far is Matt's camp from the waterfall where he shoots one of the sky divers?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 7 miles.
(c) 4 miles.
(d) 1 mile.

15. How long has it been since Jennifer and Matt divorced?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many levels are there in Ice Station Grendel?

2. When did Dr. Willig win the Nobel prize?

3. What are Matt, Jenny, Craig, and John offered when they are taken from the plane to the mess hall?

4. How old is the ensign who agrees to look after Bane while Matt, Jenny, John, and Craig go to the Ice Station?

5. Into which mountains does Jennyfly into elude the plane that is pursuing her?

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