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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does McFarlane do to Masangkay's remains in Chapter 22?
(a) Covers them with rocks.
(b) Leaves them exposed to the elements.
(c) Gathers them together to take back to the ship.
(d) Buries them.

3. What role is Amira supposed to play while on the expedition?
(a) McFarlane's assistant.
(b) McFarlane's secretary.
(c) Glinn's assistant.
(d) Glinn's secretary.

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

5. What is the melting point of the meteorite?
(a) One point two thousand degrees Kelvin.
(b) One point two hundred degrees Kelvin.
(c) One point two degrees Kelvin.
(d) One point two million degrees Kelvin.

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

7. In Chapter 28, what item does Vallenar ask the man he is interviewing to give to him?
(a) A set of propellors.
(b) A rock.
(c) A copy of the Rolvaag's custom papers.
(d) A piece of raw gold.

8. What color is the meteorite when it is finally exposed in Chapter 24?
(a) Brown.
(b) Grey.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

9. What is the name of the meteorite that caused the falling out between McFarlane and Masangkay?
(a) MasanFarlane Meteorite.
(b) Tornarssuk Meteorite.
(c) Chilean Meteorite.
(d) Monty's Meteorite.

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

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

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

13. In Chapter 28, how does Vallenar force the man he is interviewing to tell him the truth?
(a) He cuts off his fingernail.
(b) He beats him up.
(c) He threatens to have him arrested.
(d) He promises a large payment.

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

15. Who is the author of the story mentioned in Chapter 12, 'Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'?
(a) Stephen Crane.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) Stephen King.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like in Chapter 1 as Masangkay unearths part of his find?

2. In Chapter 41, what does Garza call the plan that they intend to use to move the meteorite from the staging site to the bluffs above the Rolvaag?

3. What is an island of stability?

4. What is Nestor Masangkay looking for on Isla Desolacion?

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

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