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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. At the beginning of Chapter 1, how many fathoms is the USS Polar Sentinel under the polar ice cap?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 15.
(d) 40.

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

3. How long has Matt Pike been divorced?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 2 years.

4. 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) 400 feet.
(d) 500 feet.

5. What is the name of Matt's horse?
(a) Jedediah.
(b) Mariah.
(c) Hank.
(d) Molly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What year did a submarine first cross the Arctic Ocean and pass under the North Pole?

3. How did Viktor's mother die?

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

5. What sport did Lacy Devlin participate in in the 2000 Olympics?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. To what does Dr. Willig compare the creatures in the Crawl Space?

5. Why and how does Jennifer Aratuk run her father's trapline?

6. How did Amanda lose her hearing?

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

8. What is an ice island?

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

10. What does Jenny look like?

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