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

2. 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) No known metal alloys can create such a color.
(c) It is only a reflection of the soil around it.
(d) It is paint put on the meteorite by jokesters.

3. Why does Masangkay touch his find in Chapter 1?
(a) He wants to lift it out of the ground.
(b) He is excited.
(c) He wants to take energy from it.
(d) He wants to see if it is real.

4. How much does Glinn tell Lloyd he will charge to complete the recovery of the meteorite from the Isla Desolacion in Chapter 8?
(a) Three hundred fifty million dollars.
(b) One hundred fifty million dollars.
(c) Three hundred million dollars.
(d) One hundred million dollars.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Wilson Atcitty find a large bone protruding from a sandstone wall as described in Chapter 3?

2. What is an electromagnetic tomographic sounder?

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

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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