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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Masangkay find using his electromagnetic tomographic sounder?
(a) Oil.
(b) A meteorite.
(c) Gold.
(d) Silver.

2. Who, in Chapter 12, makes the loudest objection to the banned beverage?
(a) Rochefort.
(b) Brambell.
(c) McFarlane.
(d) Amira.

3. Where did Wilson Atcitty find a large bone protruding from a sandstone wall as described in Chapter 3?
(a) In Alaska.
(b) On the border of California and Mexico.
(c) On the Arizona-New Mexico border.
(d) In Chile.

4. How much does Glinn say it will cost to determine if EES can recover the meteorite from Isla Desolacion in Chapter 7?
(a) One hundred thousand dollars.
(b) One thousand dollars.
(c) One hundred dollars.
(d) One million dollars.

5. Why does Palmer Lloyd go to the Kalahari Desert to see Sam McFarlane in Chapter 4?
(a) To ask him to head his new science museum.
(b) To ask him to to ask Masangkay to sell Lloyd his latest discovery.
(c) To ask him to finish Masangkay's expedition.
(d) To ask him to organize an expedition to recover a meteorite.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What role is Amira supposed to play while on the expedition?

3. In Chapter 13 Glinn claims they have legal right to take the meteorite despite their desire to keep the meteorite secret. How is this true?

4. What was Glinn attempting to secure during his military career that caused the loss of his entire team, minus himself and Garza, as Amira tells it in Chapter 11?

5. What item of modern technology does Sam McFarlane attempt to get San Bushmen to use in order to help him search for meteorites?

(see the answer key)

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