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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 Ashley feel as Ben and Linda walk off together?

2. What does Khalid say is the critical stipulation for exploration of Antartica?

3. What does Blakely tell Ashley about Michaelson's relationship to the first team that went in?

4. What do the transport sleds resemble that Blakely hands Ashley and the others to travel on through the caving systems in chapter ten?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Khalid reveal while he is talking to Ashley, Linda, and Ben in chapter four?

3. Describe what Linda deduces after looking at the body of one of the monsters in chapter fifteen?

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

5. When they get across the river and find blood explain what Ashley and Villanueva discuss about Halloway coming across the river.

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

7. Describe the conversation that Ashley and Michaelson have when Michaelson is angry for having to look for Halloway?

8. Explain what happens in chapter thirteen after the group gets through the small crevice while following Halloway's trail.

9. What is revealed about Ben's childhood in chapter two?

10. What does Khalid do in chapter seven after everyone has gone to bed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe Khalid and his role in the story.

2) Describe Sin'jari and his role in the story.

3) Which of these two antagonists would you say is more prominent in the story line, and why?

Essay Topic 3

1) Is the conservation that is seen with the mimi'swee understandable and believable to the reader? Explain.

2) How does the society of the mimi'swee compare to today's society?

3) Explain the reason for these vast or minimal differences.

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