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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. David Vale tells Josh Cohen in Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 12 that of the 240 attendees at the conference, how many “never made it home”?
(a) 201.
(b) 26.
(c) 120.
(d) 142.

2. 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) U-977 SS Kreigsmarine.
(c) SM U-101 SS Handelskrieg.
(d) UB-115 SS Kaiserliche Marine.

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

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

5. What is the name of Dr. Kate Warner’s lab assistant that brings her coffee in the opening of Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 1?
(a) Howard Keegan.
(b) Vincent Tarea.
(c) Ben Adelson.
(d) Steve Cooper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 6?

2. The narrator in the Prologue says that when Karl’s team had set out to sea, Naomi had brought aboard “two changes of clothes, three romance novels, and” what kind of liquor?

3. Where does the narrator say Karl Selig and his team had set out to sea five weeks ago in the novel’s Prologue?

4. The man who is being met with in the beginning of Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 2 is described as an informant with information about an imminent terrorist attack called what?

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

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