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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 does the word "Drakon" mean?
(a) Devil.
(b) Dragon.
(c) Monster.
(d) Ghost.

2. For how many months does the sun not set over the polar ice cap?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 3 months.

3. What submarine did Captain Perry's father serve aboard?
(a) Nautilus.
(b) California.
(c) Barracuda.
(d) Alabama.

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

5. How old is the ensign who agrees to look after Bane while Matt, Jenny, John, and Craig go to the Ice Station?
(a) 20.
(b) 22.
(c) 31.
(d) 34.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1997, what was the cost to the world when El Nino occurred?

3. How much time does Jennifer spend yearly checking her father's traps?

4. How many generators have been preserved at the old Russian ice station?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 1, how many fathoms is the USS Polar Sentinel under the polar ice cap?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Amanda lose her hearing?

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

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

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

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

8. What is the task of the crew on the USS Polar Sentinel?

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

10. What is an ice island?

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