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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 31, Rochefort tells McFarlane they have placed what percentage of extra jacks under the meteorite?
(a) Forty percent.
(b) Ninety percent.
(c) Ten percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

3. What is the profession of the man Vallenar interviews in Chapter 28?
(a) Dealer in illegal surveillance.
(b) Dealer in cheap ship repair equipment.
(c) Dealer in illegal government documents.
(d) Dealer in used eletronic equipment.

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

5. What is Christie's, the setting of Chapter 3?
(a) A department store.
(b) An auction house.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) A museum.

6. In Chapter 35, Glinn tells the team that the mass of the meteorite has been updated after the jack failure. What is the new estimated mass?
(a) Twenty-five thousand pounds.
(b) Twenty-five thousand tons.
(c) Twenty-five hundred thousand pounds.
(d) Twenty-five hundred thousand tons.

7. What meal does McFarlane recall in Chapter 22 that Masangkay attempted to share with him five years previously as they hid from armored trucks in a foreign country?
(a) Ramen noodles.
(b) Spam.
(c) Sardines.
(d) Cold sandwiches.

8. In Chapter 42, what covers the sounds of Timmer's approach as he infiltrates the perimeter of the staging area?
(a) Sand on the ground.
(b) Music from the staging area.
(c) An impending storm.
(d) Voices in the staging area.

9. What is Isla Desolacion?
(a) An island off the coast of Peru.
(b) An island off the coast of Chile.
(c) An island off the coast of Mexico.
(d) An island off the coast of Brazil.

10. What natural landmark marks the area where Masangkay made his camp?
(a) A large boulder.
(b) A valley in the snowfield.
(c) A huge oak tree.
(d) A small pine tree.

11. Why does Glinn tell Britton in Chapter 18 that they should not worry about Vallenar?
(a) No one believed him.
(b) He has no authority over them.
(c) No one respects him enough to care about his opinion.
(d) He is just a crazy old man.

12. 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 organize an expedition to recover a meteorite.
(d) To ask him to finish Masangkay's expedition.

13. What does Rochefort manually release on the jacks in Chapter 34?
(a) The hydraulic valves.
(b) The power cables.
(c) The computer control.
(d) The clasp connecting the jacks to the meteorite.

14. 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) A large Tyrannosaurus.
(c) The intertwined skeletons of two dinosaurs.
(d) The site of an ancient cemetery.

15. In Chapter 30, McFarlane says tests on a sample of the meteorite will reveal what properties?
(a) Physical, chemical, and electron configuration.
(b) Electrical, chemical, and physical.
(c) Electrical and chemical only.
(d) Electron configuration, chemical, and atomic radius.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Glinn plan to keep the meteorite stable during travel?

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

3. What is McFarlane's pet theory that is revealed in Chapter 25?

4. In Chapter 39, Vallenar reads a letter from what type of scientist?

5. Where does Amira tell McFarlane that Glinn earned his military experience?

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