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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Matt, Jenny, Craig, and John offered when they are taken from the plane to the mess hall?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Sandwiches.
(c) Water.
(d) Breakfast.

2. How many divers does it take to secure each of the titanium spheres in place?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

3. How tall is Captain Perry?
(a) 5 ft. 2 in.
(b) 5 ft. 10 in.
(c) 6 ft.
(d) 6 ft. 2 in.

4. After Project Shockwave was completed, how long did Viktor hold off implementing his plan for revenge?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 9 months.

5. If the ice found atop Greenland and the continent of Antarctica melted, how high might the world's oceans rise?
(a) 600 feet.
(b) 300 feet.
(c) 500 feet.
(d) 400 feet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much time does Perry want to allow to evacuate the ice station?

3. When did Belinda and Bennie lose a child?

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

5. As Matt waits to ambush the sky divers, where does he remember being holed up in a mortar-based building?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are storms like at the polar ice cap?

2. Describe the Arrigetch Peaks.

3. How did Amanda lose her hearing?

4. How are the titanium spheres being arranged by the Russian divers?

5. What types of research projects are being conducted at Omega Drift Station?

6. Why is the Sentinel all but invisible to most means of detection?

7. What is found by Henry Ogden in a tunnel in the Crawl Space?

8. What is the Continental Divide?

9. Why was Craig sent to the drift station to do a story?

10. Describe the cabin that Matt helped to build and that Jenny and her father live in.

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