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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an electromagnetic tomographic sounder?
(a) A machine used to see underneath the earth without digging.
(b) A machine used to measure earthquakes.
(c) A machine used to find magnetic activity under the groun.
(d) A machine used to dig in isolated areas.

2. What element of the San Bushman language does McFarlane have trouble reproducing in Chapter 4?
(a) The strange clicks of the language.
(b) The trill of the r's.
(c) The guttural sounds of the language.
(d) The strange consonants.

3. In Chapter 17, why does Comandante Vallenar tell custom officials that the Americans are after gold on Isla Desolacion?
(a) He believes all foreigners are looking for gold.
(b) He does not want them given the right to step on Chilean soil.
(c) He has tried to mine gold there himself.
(d) He does not believe there is iron ore on the island.

4. What did the large bone found in a sandstone wall of a canyon turn out to be as described in Chapter 3?
(a) A large Triceratops.
(b) The site of an ancient cemetery.
(c) A large Tyrannosaurus.
(d) The intertwined skeletons of two dinosaurs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Christie's, the setting of Chapter 3?

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

3. What drink has been banned from the Rolvaag?

4. What is the 'night lunch' mentioned in Chapter 11?

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

(see the answer key)

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