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Underland Quiz

Robert Macfarlane

This Study Guide consists of approximately 74 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Underland.

Underland by Robert Macfarlane

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+Chapters Summary and Analysis

First Chamber - Chapter 1

Second Chamber - Chapter 5

Third Chamber - Chapter 8

Chapters 12 - 13

Symbols and Symbolism

Themes and Motifs

Styles

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why do archaeologists think people made the dangerous journey to the Kollhellaren caves? (from Third Chamber - Chapter 8)

Because the landscape would preserve their cave paintings.

Because the caves were the most beautiful place in the area.

To test their endurance aganist the landscape.

As a rite of passage and to perform ceremonies.

2.

Why did followers of Mithraism keep their beliefs secret? (from Chapter 6)

The English outlawed worshipping Mithras.

As warriors, they believed keeping their beliefs secret and underground made them more powerful.

The Romans considered it a pagan cult.

Because they performed secret ceremonies in the underground temples devoted to Mithras.

3.

What does the hero of the Kalevala, Finland's folk epic, wear to protect himself when he travels to the underland? (from Chapters 12 - 13)

Copper shoes and an iron shirt.

A bronze shield made for him by a god.

A copper shield.

Shoes and a shirt made from bronze.

4.

What is a moulin? (from Chapter 10)

A crevasse in a glacier.

A peak on a glacier.

A lake of meltwater on a glacier.

A deposit of rocks left by a glacier.

5.

What is karst? (from Chapter 6)

Rivers that travel underground.

Topography formed by dissolving of soluable rocks and minerals that is rich in underlands.

Sinkholes that form in topography of soluable rock and minerals.

Topography formed by glaciers that create caves and tunnels.

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