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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of plane does Matt Pike see and then hear as it crashes?

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

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

4. What is the name of Matt's horse?

5. What time does Matt hear the screams of the sky diver who is killed by grizzlies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Amanda lose her hearing?

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

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

4. How did Belinda and Bennie meet?

5. In Chapter 5, what are some signs that the land is experiencing a spring thaw?

6. Describe the USS Polar Sentinel.

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

8. What does Jenny look like?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the author uses cliffhangers to create suspense, to engage readers, and to advance plot.

Essay Topic 2

At the beginning of the novel, Jenny and her father have established an uneasy peace, but as the novel progresses their relationship changes. Discuss how and why their relationship changes.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 3, Matt and Viktor reflect on their past and the deaths of their parents. Compare and contrast Matt and Viktor's past, especially as it relates to the death of their parents and how those deaths affected the men's lives.

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