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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 Sally say her father says Link possesses?

2. Link sees the gallon of water in the radiator of the car he is trapped in as being a _____.

3. The music Roderick Hodge plays when Link arrives is less _____ than the music in London.

4. Link thinks of the party tramping down into the mine as being like _____.

5. What does Link find in his pocket that he deems useless in his situation in the car?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first objective observation Link makes when he finds himself trapped in the car?

2. How does Link's fear manifest when he is hit over the head in the gold mine?

3. What happens when Conrad and Evan Pentelow are loading up the station wagon for Kruger Park and how does Link help?

4. What does Conrad reveal about Evan Pentelow's involvement in finding Link?

5. Why does Roderick Hodge try to bounce Melanie back into seduction mode after her political spiel and what do Melanie's instincts tell her to do?

6. How do Conrad and Evan Pentelow feel about Link's plan to trap Danilo?

7. As Danilo is calculating how much the gold mine makes for the van Huren's, what does Quentin van Huren remind him about?

8. How had Conrad and Evan Pentelow discovered that Link was actually missing and what had they initially thought about his absence?

9. What are Evan Pentelow's beliefs concerning the value of gold?

10. What is the difference, according to Pieter Losenwoldt, between the way gold is extracted in South Africa and how it is extracted in California and Alaska.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Link suspicious of Greville Arknold at the end of Chapter 4? What conclusion has he come to about Nerissa's horses based on the evidence given to him at the time? What tests have been run? How do the horses look to Link?

Essay Topic 2

Compare the demeanor of Clifford Wenkins to that of Link's character. How is Clifford Wenkins a foil to Link's character? How are the two men physically different? How does each man differ in the way he presents himself?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the "hope-despair" seesaw Link goes through when trapped. Who does he think will miss him and come looking for him? Who does he eliminate as possible rescuers? Why?

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