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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. How many cannot be removed from the Kosmik in time?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

2. What is the best scenario the ground crew can reasonably hope for?
(a) To dig out the press.
(b) To find something else of equal value.
(c) To get out alive.
(d) To recover the two chases.

3. What does Hutch come face to face with the next morning on her own?
(a) A Strider.
(b) A sea serpent.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A Flickinger.

4. In what year does this novel begin?
(a) 2348
(b) 2197
(c) 2159
(d) 2295

5. What does Ian convey to Melanie?
(a) That explosives will be rigged without failsafes.
(b) That he is interested in her.
(c) That he is not about to hesitate.
(d) That the archaeologists may need a push to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hutch have to do to get free?

2. What damage does the third wave do?

3. What message waits for Hutch when they return to the ship from Oz?

4. What is Kosmik Station?

5. What are the archaeologists trying to uncover?

Short Essay Questions

1. What questions does Hutch have about the snowball dropped on them by Melanie?

2. What issues make it harder than anticipated to recover the printing press from the Lower Temple.

3. What is the end result of Maggie's push to recover the two chases at all costs?

4. What does Maggie appear to be oblivious to?

5. What is the basic topography of Quraqua?

6. When Henry finds out about the coming tidal wave, what are his first priorities?

7. Why had the excavation of the Lower Temple been so important?

8. What was particularly odd about the structures created in Oz?

9. What issue does the Boston Globe bemoan?

10. What events conspire against Hutch, slowing down her return to the surface one last time?

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