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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drink does Parker ask for?

2. Papyrus was made using?

3. What delayed Dillinger?

4. Why was Colonel Morton Hollis so sure of his team?

5. Who unwittingly walks into the hijacking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between papyrus and parchment?

2. How did the Lady Flamborough escape notice?

3. Why does Hala change her mind and decide to announce the immanent discovery of the antiquities?

4. What information bothers Yeager and Dirk?

5. How did Yeager manage to find that Venator had been at Barnaget Bay in New Jersey?

6. What was the easiest excuse to get the security guards into the room to be killed? How were they killed?

7. Who admires Giordino and why?

8. Why would no archaeologist back what Pitt was saying about Venator coming to the Americas?

9. What happens when Ammar pushes the button for the detonation?

10. Where is the best location for the scrolls to be if they are to maintain their cohesion and readability? Where is the worst?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the Alexandria artifacts a matter of National Security? What could be gained through this conflict? Whose side do you take in the battle to stay on site--Pitt's or the President's? Why?

Essay Topic 2

If we took the story as literal, examine how you believe the world would change with the information that Junius Venators' cavern would have held. Explain how that acquisition of such artifacts would dramatically change the course of events in politics, religion, finances, and history. What kinds of things might the religious community be obligated to accept?

Essay Topic 3

What does Dirk's action regarding the crash say about his personality? Why do you think he fought so hard to save those people he didn't know? What would you have done in his position?

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