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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Willem meet just after seeing the Mississippi Delta water diversion?
(a) An ambassador's aid to the Netherlands.
(b) A logistics officer for T.R.
(c) A representative from Venice.
(d) A Chinese functionary named Bo.

2. What is the Maasvlakte?
(a) An artificial system of canals that brings fresh water inland.
(b) An artificially created peninsula where container ships dock.
(c) A natural cliffside that provides a strategic military defense point from naval attacks.
(d) The financial district of the Hague.

3. What does the World's Biggest Gun fire?
(a) Fires satellites into space.
(b) Fires bullets that take out enemy aircraft.
(c) Fires carbon trapping drones into the atmosphere.
(d) Fires sulfur into the stratosphere.

4. Who does Laks meet outside his tent, who is smoking a pipe and representing the Indian Army?
(a) Captain Indira.
(b) Lieutenant Shankar.
(c) Colonel Patel.
(d) Major Raju.

5. What is the item that the Indian army intelligence officer procures for Laks to use in the battle for the barracks?
(a) A special reinforced gatka stick.
(b) A fishing pole.
(c) A snowboard.
(d) A collapsable shield.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Saskia's husband die?

2. What is T.R.'s wife's name?

3. Who is Adele?

4. What natural phenomenon kills the surfers at the beach at Scheveningen?

5. At Ranjit's suggestion, Where does Laks decide he wants to go?

Short Essay Questions

1. On the train out to West Texas, How does Sylvester explain the rise of sand piracy around his country?

2. How do Saskia and Ruud handle the Pina2bo problem in regard to Saskia's budget day speech?

3. What is the Line of Actual Control?

4. How is Rufus connected to the Comanche tribe?

5. What is Rufus' profession after Adele is killed?

6. In the chapter titled "Nederland," what causes the death of all those surfers?

7. Why is Laks politely asked to leave the first akhara he joins?

8. In Rufus' interview with T.R. what seals the deal for T.R. in wanting to hire Rufus to work out at Flying S Ranch?

9. In the chapter titled "The Storm," how does a sulfur launch site in Papua seem like an opportunity to Sister Catherine?

10. What brings ants closer to human populations in Houston?

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