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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 is the population of Auroraville?

2. What quality did the air take on?

3. What was Peter staring at?

4. What is the scientific name of the octopus that bit Peter?

5. Who is Scorpio_L?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does George want to do with Sarah and Evans?

2. Why would the military fund weather research?

3. What lies did Evans tell Drake?

4. What kinds of confused feelings was Sarah stuck with?

5. In what ways was Peter trying to identify George Morton's body? Why couldn't he?

6. What was said by the Russian-accented fellow that caught Sarah's attention?

7. What are burns?

8. Why wasn't Professor Hoffman welcome at the conference?

9. How did Evans determine where the thing that the detective wanted to give him was located?

10. Why did the investigators turn to computer simulations regarding the crash of Morton's car?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Evans and Drake. What kind of characters are they? What kind of people would they be if they existed in real life? How do their personalities contrast each other? How could they compliment each other?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Evans and Ted. What kinds of personalities are both people? How do they differ in their approach to the environment? How are they the same? How do you feel about each character? Who would you rather have as your friend and why?

Essay Topic 3

How did you, as the reader, feel about this book? Which character did you identify most with? Why? Which character did you like the most/least? Why? Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

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