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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 does Mack use the mountain goat for?

2. What does Mack do to Petrovich before he leaves him?

3. Why does Yakov think Baronas will not be much use to his daughter?

4. What does the helicopter pilot say is his mission?

5. Why is Zamatev worried about Mac in this section?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mack lead one of Alekhin's men onto the ice?

2. How does Peshkov die?

3. Why does Mack decide to rescue Yakov?

4. How does Yakov help Natayla?

5. Why does Kyra think Ostap is a good choice in assisting with the tracking?

6. Why does Mack think the boulder trap that breaks the man's leg is better than the others?

7. How does Mack try to confuse Alekhin?

8. Why do Natayla and her father think they are in danger at the end of this section?

9. What do Baronas and Natayla plan to do?

10. How does Mack escape the soldiers at the end of the chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the similarities between Mack and Alekhin? How does Mack manage to overcome Alekhin despite that are equal in ability?

Essay Topic 2

Examine violence in the book.

1. How do the characters in the book view violence?

2. Do the characters need to be violent to cope in the world that the author portrays?

3. How did the public react to the book's violence when it was first published? How would the public react to a similar book today?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

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