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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the president want to know if Rachel shares her father's poor opinion of during their first meeting?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Space exploration.
(c) Taxes.
(d) Education.

2. What does Tench believe will just be a bonus to ensure Herney wins the presidency?
(a) Rachel dying.
(b) The meteorite finding.
(c) Sexton taking bribes.
(d) Gabrielle admitting her affair with Sexton.

3. What does an inside source tell Yolanda that the president's press conference is related to in Chapter 65?
(a) Taxes.
(b) NASA.
(c) An affair.
(d) Resignation.

4. Who assumes they will die but begins hitting the ice with the blunt end of an ax after falling into the ocean on a glacier?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Corky.
(c) Michael.
(d) Norah.

5. What does the Delta Force put down Norah's throat in Chapter 51?
(a) A gun.
(b) Snow.
(c) Water.
(d) Poison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person using the ax on the ice hope to send a message to?

2. What is Rachel's job at the White House?

3. What do the scientists see an obvious outline of in the extraction pit of the glacier after using the GPR?

4. Who tells Pickering that the meteorite is definitely real during a phone conversation with him on the submarine?

5. What does Rachel realize she has been shot with when the Delta Force attacks her and the scientists at the Milne Ice Shelf?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Rachel's conversation with the president via a video link while on the Milne Ice Shelf described?

2. How is Michael's belief of panspermia described in the book?

3. How does Senator Sexton receive the classified information regarding NASA that he uses to discredit his opponents?

4. What do the scientists and Rachel discover on the GPR printout of the meteorite?

5. What does Rachel do aboard the USS Charlotte when she realizes the president is about to have his press conference?

6. How does Michael help Rachel and Corky escape the Delta Force on the meteorite?

7. How does Marjorie Tench explain the Space Commercialization Promotion Act to Gabrielle?

8. How do Michael and Corky describe how to distinguish a meteorite to Rachel?

9. Why does Pickering tell Rachel to wait to tell the president about her findings on the meteorite when she calls him aboard the USS Charlotte?

10. How does Yolanda react when Gabrielle tells her she wishes to go public with her affair with Senator Sexton?

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