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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapters 1-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in the Prologue, Antarctica holds what percentage of the world’s ice?
(a) 90%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 60%.

2. What is the name of the eight-year-old autistic child that has just completed the puzzle Dr. Warner’s team has designed to identify savants in the opening of Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 3?
(a) Surya.
(b) Uri.
(c) Milo.
(d) Adi.

3. What writing on the submarine does Karl Selig make out as the iceberg crumbles in the Prologue of the novel?
(a) U-1062 SS Germaniawerft.
(b) UB-115 SS Kaiserliche Marine.
(c) U-977 SS Kreigsmarine.
(d) SM U-101 SS Handelskrieg.

4. In what year did Indonesia declare independence from the Netherlands?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1932.

5. Where did Dr. Kate Warner earn her MD?
(a) Northwestern University.
(b) Princeton Medical School.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

Short Answer Questions

1. The research vessel described in the opening of the Prologue is said to be how many miles off the coast of Antarctica?

2. Who is the director of the Clocktower counterterrorism organization in Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 2?

3. What is the name of the man introduced by the narrator in the opening of Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 2, who is watching the man who buys a New York Times at the newsstand?

4. The study that Dr. Kate Warner is heading in Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 1 is described as having roughly how many autistic children in residence?

5. In Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 1, Dr. Kate Warner finds a photograph among her things. It is the only photograph Kate has of her childhood home where?

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