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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 44-52.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 42, how does Timmer find the door to the tunnel where the meteorite sits?
(a) He sees light beneath a keg of nails.
(b) He sees the guard come from a steel door hidden under a insignificant worker's tent.
(c) He forces the guard to tell him before he kills him.
(d) He sees people milling around the open door.

2. In Chapter 42, what covers the sounds of Timmer's approach as he infiltrates the perimeter of the staging area?
(a) Sand on the ground.
(b) Voices in the staging area.
(c) Music from the staging area.
(d) An impending storm.

3. What does panteonero mean?
(a) Cemetery wind.
(b) Graveyard breeze.
(c) Typhoon.
(d) Death's breath.

4. In Chapter 30, McFarlane says tests on a sample of the meteorite will reveal what properties?
(a) Electrical and chemical only.
(b) Electron configuration, chemical, and atomic radius.
(c) Physical, chemical, and electron configuration.
(d) Electrical, chemical, and physical.

5. In Chapter 46, what slows the progress of the meteorite as it is moved from its previous location to the bluffs above the Rolvaag?
(a) Vallenar's men.
(b) Glinn's orders.
(c) The snow field.
(d) A broken machine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 28, what item does Vallenar ask the man he is interviewing to give to him?

2. For what reason is it revealed in Chapter 9 Captain Britton went to rehab?

3. What is McFarlane's pet theory that is revealed in Chapter 25?

4. In Chapter 32, what does Bramwell find unusual about Masangkay's bones?

5. What does McFarlane tell Glinn in chapter 47 when he asks how safe the meteorite is?

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