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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. How many miles a day does the station drift with the polar current?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 3 miles.
(c) 1/2 mile.
(d) 1 mile.

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

3. What is the average thickness of the polar ice cap where the USS Polar Sentinel is patrolling?
(a) 10 ft.
(b) 15 ft.
(c) 20 ft.
(d) 5 ft.

4. What do the Inuit call the Aurora Borealis?
(a) Koyukon.
(b) Yoyakkyh.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Spirit lights.

5. When did Dr. Willig win the Nobel prize?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1972.
(d) He did not win it.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What type of tree branch splinters when a sky diver aims at Matt while he crouches in ambush?

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

5. What type of animal is trying to steal Jennifer's marten in her father's trap?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Matt believe that the sky divers anticipated an ambush?

3. How did Amanda lose her hearing?

4. How is the Drakon equipped?

5. What is an ice island?

6. What does it mean to Viktor when he learns that the U.S. Delta Force has been mobilized?

7. How has Russian changed during Viktor's lifetime?

8. What does Perry remember finding at the Russian ice base?

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

10. Describe the Arrigetch Peaks.

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