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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 tell Ben when he says that he and she should be paired up when looking for Halloway?

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

3. What does Ben do in chapter six when Linda asks if she can open the window in the Sno-Cat?

4. What does Jason reply when Blakely asks him how he is holding up in chapter sixteen?

5. What does Villanueva say when Ashley suggests that Halloway may have already crossed the river?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the conversation that Flattery and Blakely have in chapter nine when they are discussing how the team will be able to keep in contact with the new circuit boards.

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

9. In chapter seven what does Ashley tell Jason about what he can expect to do while at the main base camp while she is gone.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

1) Did the fact that Khalid chose to take diamonds from the caves, despite his employer's wish, make you believe his convictions less when he spoke of destroying the caves in order to save his country's economy? Why or why not?

2) Speculate on what effect the cavern would have had on the world.

3) If you could find a cavern with either a lost civilization or diamonds in it which would you chose and why?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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