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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. How many minutes till sun down in Chapter 35?

2. What song does Pitt ask the piano player to play?

3. Who got the blame every time an assassination or terrorist plot was uncovered?

4. What did Topiltzin hand out to the crowd?

5. What was the familiar odor Dirk smelled?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes did Ammar undergo to look the part of Captain Collins?

2. What did Captain Collins consider inhuman?

3. In what ways did Ismail's inexperience show through?

4. How does Hala Kamil feel about Julius' visit and what he plans?

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

6. How did Pitt feel about the push for a location?

7. When is the first time Pitt has been wrong in this book?

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

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

10. What is the difference between papyrus and parchment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Dirk's relationship with his father. How are they similar? How are they different? In what ways do you think the Senator may have been like his son when he was younger? Why do you think his father never developed the way about him Dirk has?

Essay Topic 2

How would the technology of today have made the abduction of the Lady Flamborough impossible? How would it have aided the search for the lost treasures of the Alexandria Library?

Essay Topic 3

Pick two characters from the book to compare and contrast against each other. How would the plot line have been affected if these two characters had interacted more often? How do they interact as it is? Would these two characters make a good team? Why or why not?

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