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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Prisoner of the Sand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antoine say a plane makes the desolate become?
(a) Passable.
(b) Unintimidating.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Known.

2. What did people during Antoine's age say machines were doing to the human race?
(a) Leveling the playing field.
(b) Lowering values.
(c) Spreading idleness.
(d) Creating chaos.

3. What color are the strange rocks that Antoine found in the place he thinks no other human had been?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Pink.
(d) Black.

4. According to Antoine, what carpets the rolling hills in Chile?
(a) Sand.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Moss.
(d) Grass.

5. According to Antoine, who frees a plane design from its prison?
(a) Engineers.
(b) Contractors.
(c) God.
(d) Pilots.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Antoine when he thought he was somewhere no man had been before?

2. Where did Antoine sleep after his crash landing?

3. What does Antoine contemplate when he landed in Punta Arenas?

4. What was the name of the man with Antoine when he crash landed in the desert?

5. What color are the Gallegos lava plains?

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