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

2. What famous assassination are Glinn's team reenacting when McFarlane arrives at EES's offices in Chapter 6?
(a) John Fitzgerald Kennedy's death in Dallas.
(b) Abraham Lincoln's death in Washington, D.C.
(c) Lee Harvey Oswald's death in Dallas.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.'s death in Memphis.

3. What is Nestor Masangkay looking for on Isla Desolacion?
(a) A meteorite.
(b) Gold.
(c) Oil.
(d) Silver.

4. What does Amira claim uses more calories than jogging?
(a) Heart cells.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Kissing.
(d) Brain cells.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the large bone found in a sandstone wall of a canyon turn out to be as described in Chapter 3?

2. Why does Palmer Lloyd go to the Kalahari Desert to see Sam McFarlane in Chapter 4?

3. 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?

4. What is a dead man switch?

5. What element of the San Bushman language does McFarlane have trouble reproducing in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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