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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a dead man switch?
(a) A switch to sink the ship should their mission be discovered.
(b) A switch to remove casualties of an accident quickly.
(c) A ejection switch to quickly remove the meteorite in an emergency.
(d) A switch to cut power to the bridge in an emergency.

2. Who, in Chapter 12, makes the loudest objection to the banned beverage?
(a) McFarlane.
(b) Amira.
(c) Rochefort.
(d) Brambell.

3. In Chapter 9, what author does Britton quote before she leaves Glinn?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) Stephen King.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) W.H. Auden.

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

5. Where does Amira tell McFarlane that Glinn earned his military experience?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Russia.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Korea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drink has been banned from the Rolvaag?

2. Why does Masangkay touch his find in Chapter 1?

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

4. Why does Vallenar dislike disposable razors as discussed in Chapter 28?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rochefort go into the tunnel with the jacked up meteorite in Chapter 34? What happens?

2. What does Lloyd do when he first sees the meteorite? Who warns against this action? Why?

3. What does Glinn's company, Effective Engineering Solutions, Inc., do? What is their success record? Why does Lloyd hire them?

4. Who are the people Sam McFarlane has hired to help him search for meteorites in the Kalahari Desert? How does he win their trust? How does he lose it?

5. What causes the computers on the island to fail? What is found in the tunnel with the meteorite?

6. Why does McFarlane tell Britton in chapter 14 that he decided to study meteorites? What question does Britton ask McFarlane about this expedition?

7. What unusual findings do McFarlane and Glinn make when they remove Masangkay's body for study on the ship in Chapter 27?

8. What is being auction at a Christie's auction house in Chapter 3? What is unusual about the buyer?

9. Why does Glinn gather his team and suggest they end the expedition in Chapter 35? Do they?

10. What does Dr. Brambell say caused Masangkay's death? How does this impact the expedition at this point?

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