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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. What is the name of the man who watches the sun rise in Chapter 1?
(a) Bodkin.
(b) Kerans.
(c) Hardman.
(d) Colonel Riggs.

2. What disturbs Kerans when they wait in the courtyard?
(a) The heat.
(b) Voices of iguanas.
(c) The crashed helicopter.
(d) Hardman's disappearance.

3. Who arrives in a helicopter while Kerans and Bodkin are at Beatrice's complex?
(a) Daley.
(b) Macready.
(c) Riggs.
(d) Wilson.

4. How does Kerans describe the temperature inside the ward?
(a) Incredibly hot.
(b) Moderate.
(c) Unusually cold.
(d) Comfortable.

5. Why does Kerans apologize to Bodkin?
(a) For telling Hardman about the departure.
(b) For overhearing their conversation.
(c) For stealing the compass.
(d) For questioning Bodkin's research.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has turned the temperate regions of Europe into a flooded tropic?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Kerans see from across the water?

3. Where does Kerans go after escaping the caiman?

4. What does Bodkin warn Kerans about regarding the iguanas?

5. Where do Kerans and Riggs move to after docking the cutter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What object does Kerans take from the armory and why?

2. Who yells out of the door of a helicopter to Beatrice and Kerans and what does he say?

3. What eats Kerans’ catamaran and why?

4. In what way are the flora and fauna evolving?

5. How does the novel address themes of environmental destruction and climate change?

6. Why do the freebooters inspect the buildings in the lagoon?

7. How does the novel address the concept of evolution?

8. Who is Lieutenant Hardman?

9. Can you describe the “flooded city” in the novel?

10. What is the significance of the massive, Triassic-sized insects buzzing past Kerans as he stands on the balcony?

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