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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. Who do the three men and Jessie see seated at a table in the house they find on the island?

2. Where does Chapter 1 take place?

3. What do Steinmetz and his crew make from grapes?

4. Where did Dr. Calvin Rooney attend medical school?

5. How old was Steinmetz when he set foot on the moon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hagen get papers relating to the Inner Core from General Fisher?

2. Describe Velikov's study.

3. How was the Prosperteer prevented from crashing into the hotel?

4. Why did Pitt place a hair across his door when he escaped from his cell the first time?

5. Describe the Prosperteer.

6. Describe the Unified Space Operations Center in Colorado Springs.

7. What did Pitt, Gunn, Giordino, and Jessie find in the cargo hold of the Cyclops?

8. How are the deaths of the bodies on the blimp similar to a case Rooney had fifteen years ago?

9. Why would it have been disastrous for the Prosperteer to collide with the Sonesta Beach Hotel?

10. Describe what Pitt finds when is escaping from the Russian installation.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is the inciting force of the novel the La Dorada or when Jessie, Pitt, Gunn, and Giordino are downed with the Prosperteer? Or is the inciting force something else? Create arguments explaining what the inciting force is of the novel. Use examples from the novel to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Use examples from the novel and argue that the genre of the novel is either an action-adventure or some other type of genre.

Essay Topic 3

Pitt was asked to undertake a mission to follow the flight path that Raymond LeBaron took in the Prosperteer before he disappeared. Explain how the author used foreshadowing to indicate that something was not right about the mission. Use examples from the novel.

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