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

2. Where were the most significant discoveries made?
(a) Under water.
(b) Motel.
(c) Other planet.
(d) Inside a bomb shelter.

3. Carson is surprised to find that the ________ is intact.
(a) Original locks.
(b) Notice of demolition.
(c) Maker's mark.
(d) Sacred seal.

4. What time of day did Carson typically have lunch?
(a) 2:00.
(b) 3:00.
(c) 1:00.
(d) 12:00.

5. Carson realizes that he is directly in front of what type of structure?
(a) Aquaduct.
(b) House.
(c) Statue.
(d) Tomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the purpose of the tradition? What does the action bring?

2. Interest was revived in the lost continent how many years ago?

3. What item was located directly behind the altar?

4. What does Carson do to be able to get inside?

5. Which one of the following items is not worn by Harriet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Carson spend most of his time?

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

3. Why was #9 proportioned in a specific way?

4. When was there an interest rekindled in North America? Why?

5. How long was it between the discovery and the beginning of the excavation? Was it successful?

6. What are Carson's names for items #8, 9, & 10?

7. When did the great catastrophe occur? What caused it?

8. What did Carson do one day while eating his lunch?

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

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

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