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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Island, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anand confide to James about Owen in Chapter 4?
(a) He is sleeping with Kathryn.
(b) He has forged his academic credentials.
(c) He has had more contact with the cave people than he lets on.
(d) He is continuing to run the dig to defraud the university of money.

2. What does James admit to Kathryn as they walk together in Chapter 2?
(a) He fantasizes about her.
(b) He thinks the dig is a waste.
(c) He is jealous of Owen.
(d) He is seeing someone new.

3. Why did Owen Brademas promote Kathryn so quickly?
(a) She was sleeping with him.
(b) His workers were quitting.
(c) She helped him get a book published.
(d) She thinks she is a prodigy.

4. What scares Owen about religion?
(a) The wars it engenders.
(b) Masses of people with the same emotion.
(c) The non-governmental hierarchy.
(d) The iconography.

5. Which of the following is not a city James says he will be visiting in Chapter 2?
(a) Karachi.
(b) Beirut.
(c) Tehran.
(d) Istanbul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anand's profession?

2. What information does Kathryn give about the murder victim at the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. In Chapter 1, what monument do James Axton and his friends discuss?

4. What event precipitated the separation of the Axtons?

5. Which of the following characters admits to having never been to a famous monument in Chapter 1?

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