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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 Blakely tell Jason he needs after collapsing on the floor in chapter twenty?

2. What does Blakely find when he hauls up the line that held the anchor?

3. In chapter ten, how many times a day does Blakely tell the group to be in contact?

4. What does Khalid say when Ben asks if he is a geologist?

5. What is thrown at Villanueva and Ashley after they fire their guns into the cave in chapter thirteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Linda goes through Khalid's backpack for cigarettes for Villanueva?

2. Explain what happens in chapter seventeen when Linda wakes up with a headache.

3. Describe what happens in chapter twenty when Jason and Blakely are withing earshot of Linda and Khalid.

4. What do Ben, Michaelson, and Ashley find when they are at the top of the wall that they scale in chapter eighteen?

5. Explain the dream that Ben has while sleeping in the cave in chapter seventeen.

6. In the meeting in chapter four what does Blakely reveal is significant about the find in Antarctica?

7. Describe the events that take place when Villanueva crosses the river in chapter thirteen.

8. What does Blakely show Ashley when they first meet in chapter one?

9. What is unique about the boulders that are found in thirteen when the group first begins looking for Halloway?

10. Describe the scene in chapter two when Ben Brust is first introduced.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Write an essay explaining why Tiny Tim was an appropriate name for the crak'an found at the end of the story, or why this name was not appropriate. If you had to give the creature a different name what would it have been and why?

2) Create a nickname for the other main players in the story and explain the importance of the names chosen for them.

3) What nickname would you give yourself if you were putting yourself in a work of fiction? Explain what kind of work it would be and why you chose this name.

Essay Topic 2

1) What are the implications associated with the fact that the mimi'swee had developed biological tools.

2) If you were writing a fictional piece what biological tools would you have developed? Explain.

3) Do you believe that biological tools are something that is realistic for science to focus on? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

1) Which of the scenes in the story caught your attention the most and stuck with you throughout the story? Why do you think this scene was the one that got your attention?

2) Do you think that blood or violence is a more attention grabbing in literature? Why?

3) How would this story have changed had there been no scenes of blood or violence or explanation of the carnage seen? Would it have diminished the story line? Explain.

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