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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 Khalid compare the Antarctic dig to in chapter four?

2. What happens in the end of chapter seventeen when Michaelson, Ashley, and Ben have reached the top of the wall they were climbing?

3. Why does Michaelson say that he joined in the army?

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

5. What does Ashley tell Jason that the computer is in his room for in chapter seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the group stops to camp for the first night in chapter eleven what happens?

2. What happens in chapter five when Jason goes to the bathroom?

3. Describe the dream that Ben has in chapter two.

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

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

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

7. What happens in chapter twelve when Ashley sends Halloway to get Michaelson?

8. Describe the cavern that the group finds to hide in in chapter seventeen.

9. Describe the conversation that Ashley and Blakely have in the elevator in chapter six.

10. Describe the scene in chapter one when Ashley Carter 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) Growth is often seen in a story in reference to the individual characters. Which character do you feel underwent the greatest change during Subterfuge? Explain why.

2) Which character do you feel underwent the least change?

3) Compare these two characters and speculate on what prompted so much or so little change in them?

Essay Topic 3

1) Speculate on the reasons that the author chose to include Ashley's young son in the story.

2) Which of the main characters seen in the story do you feel could have been excluded from the story without loosing the meaning? Explain your choice.

3) Did you feel it was necessary to the story line for Nob'cobi to have given his life for Jason? Why or why not?

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