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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 slip-up does Ammar do that he doesn't know he did?

2. Parchment was made from?

3. What delayed Dillinger?

4. What country's flag was flown on the Lady Flamborough?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Special Forces team mess up?

2. What information bothers Yeager and Dirk?

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

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

5. What did Captain Collins consider inhuman?

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

7. What is the President of the USA requesting of Senator Pitt? What is something he adds that he would normally not do?

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

9. What does Pitt know the terrorists are aware of?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay from research on airplane crash survivors. What kinds of things did they have to do in the name of survival? Do you think you could do the same? Why or why not? Do you think this is an accurate answer, or do you think that you might change your mind in the heat of the actual situation?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the nature of barbarity and savages. When taken into context, although Native Americans lived primitively, the barbaric invaders were the europeans who came here and slaughtered villages. What defines a barbarian? A savage? Relate barbarity to developed nations. How do they interact?

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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