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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an island of stability?
(a) A hypothetical group of elements high on the periodic table that are stable.
(b) A group of elements low on the periodic table that are stable.
(c) A ship that floats on the upper most layer of water.
(d) A floating island that will not tip.

2. In Chapter 48, why does Glinn visit the Almirante Ramirez?
(a) To distract him from the removal of gold mined from the island.
(b) To distract Vallenar from the dropping of the meteorite into the Rolvaag's hold.
(c) To distract him from the removal of Timmer's body from the island.
(d) To distract him from the Rolvaag's attempted escape from the channel.

3. 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) A broken machine.
(c) The snow field.
(d) Glinn's orders.

4. In Chapter 36, Puppup claims to have inherited the remaining treasures of the Yaghan Indians. What does he say he did with it?
(a) Hid it on a remote island.
(b) Sold it and gave it to his wife's family.
(c) Sold it and drank the profits.
(d) Gave it to a museum.

5. What does Amira suggest is off about the color of the meteorite, as she explains in Chapter 25?
(a) No meteorite in history has ever been that color.
(b) It is paint put on the meteorite by jokesters.
(c) It is only a reflection of the soil around it.
(d) No known metal alloys can create such a color.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 36, Glinn claims his great-great-great grandfather kidnapped what relative of Puppup's?

2. What does Lloyd want to call the meteorite?

3. What is the name of the channel where the Rolvaag lowers its anchor during the recovery of the meteorite?

4. Who is the author of the story mentioned in Chapter 12, 'Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'?

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

(see the answer key)

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