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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does panteonero mean?
(a) Typhoon.
(b) Cemetery wind.
(c) Graveyard breeze.
(d) Death's breath.

2. In Chapter 31, McFarlane claims the meteorite is like what element?
(a) Metalloids.
(b) Noble gas.
(c) Transition elements.
(d) Alkali metals.

3. What is the weather like in Chapter 1 as Masangkay unearths part of his find?
(a) Rainy.
(b) Snowy.
(c) Hot.
(d) Dry.

4. Where does Glinn ask to meet McFarlane in Chapter 20?
(a) The library.
(b) The captain's mess.
(c) The sickbay.
(d) The bridge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an electromagnetic tomographic sounder?

2. How has Glinn disguised the labs to be used in the recovery of the meteorite?

3. What does Amira suggest is off about the color of the meteorite, as she explains in Chapter 25?

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

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