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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: "The Tombs of Atlantis," Chapters 97-123.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The wire release that opens Part II: "A Tibetan Tapestry," Chapter 43 is from what news organization?
(a) Al Jazeera.
(b) BBC World Report.
(c) The Associated Press.
(d) CNN News.

2. What is the date of the final journal entry in Patrick Pierce’s journal in Part III: "The Tombs of Atlantis," Chapter 97?
(a) September 13, 1939.
(b) October 1, 1917.
(c) October 12, 1938.
(d) June 2, 1929.

3. Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 21 opens in what location?
(a) The Clocktower Safe House.
(b) Immari Corp. Research Complex.
(c) The Main Situation Room at Clocktower Station Headquarters.
(d) Manggarai Train Station.

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

5. What term from the novel refers to the study of mitotically or meiotically heritable changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype, caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence?
(a) Culigenetics.
(b) Epigenetics.
(c) Cryogenetics.
(d) Synergetics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the present-day site of Lake Toba and the supposed Toba super-eruption?

2. Patrick Pierce says in his final journal entry that Kane has taken the Bell to Germany to conduct experiments near what town?

3. According to the narrator in the novel’s Prologue, the Nazis sent expeditions to Antarctica in what years?

4. Who is the West Jakarta Police Chief that walks into the crime scene at the Autism Research Center in Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 5?

5. When the Nazis sent expeditions to Antarctica, they claimed part of the continent as a new German province named what, according to the narrator in the Prologue?

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