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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 was the purpose of the tradition? What does the action bring?
(a) Good luck.
(b) Rain.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Pennies from heaven.

2. What is the more commonly known name for plasticus petrificus?
(a) Rubber.
(b) Plexiglass.
(c) Formica.
(d) Sand.

3. The characters have an acronym for ICE. What does it stand for according to the text?
(a) Inner Chamber Escalator.
(b) Inside Cooking Elevator.
(c) Insidious Carcass Entrapment.
(d) Internal Component Enclosure.

4. What was the number marked on the tomb of the great mysteries?
(a) 17.
(b) 26.
(c) 68.
(d) 94.

5. Who went on a quest and disappeared 400 years later?
(a) Billingsly.
(b) Bundy.
(c) Bunliffe.
(d) Heathcliff.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous site was discovered?

2. What common item is referred to as the ceremonial headdress?

3. What adjective best describes Carson's attitude at this moment?

4. A series of important writings is attributed to whom?

5. What were referred to as the plasticus ear ornaments?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Carson's reaction when he realized what he had found?

2. What did Harriet say in reference to the opening of the door at Tomb #26?

3. How did Carson spend most of his time?

4. How did Howard Carson find the excavation site?

5. How is Howard Carson's life described before the discovery of the Motel of the Mysteries?

6. What was the result? How long did it take?

7. What did German scholar Heinrich von Hooligan discover? What was the alleged purpose of the items(s)?

8. What covered the majority of North America?

9. What happened right after the catastrophe?

10. Where did Carson end up? What was he facing when he landed?

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