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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What size groups go up the ventilation shaft after Jenny sends a rope down?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

2. What was the purpose of the room where Craig and the others go to hide in Chapter 13?
(a) Hydraulics room.
(b) Control room for the station's sea gate.
(c) The main room for Grendel research.
(d) Electronics room.

3. In Chapter 13, how high are the giant brass wheels in the room where Craig and the others go to hide?
(a) 10 ft. high.
(b) 5 ft. high.
(c) 6 in. high.
(d) 36 in. high.

4. What object had Matt grabbed from a severed hand in the ice station that he uses to fight off the grendels when he's trapped under the ice?
(a) Fragmentation grenade.
(b) Chemical grenade.
(c) Illuminating grenade.
(d) Incendiary grenade.

5. When was the "Jeannette" crushed by ice floes?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1874.

6. When Tom announces that he Jenny, Bane, and Kowalski have about another hundred yards to go, how long have they been crawling toward the ice station?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 90 minutes.
(c) A half an hour.
(d) An hour.

7. How many black men with syphilis were unwitting research subjects?
(a) 100.
(b) 150.
(c) 75.
(d) 200.

8. What band is playing on a CD to mask the sound of Jenny's escape from Omega base?
(a) U2.
(b) Linkin Park.
(c) Muse.
(d) Sound Garden.

9. At the beginning of Chapter 13, where do Matt and the others taken refuge after fleeing from Level 4?
(a) In a storage closet.
(b) Service Shed on Level 3.
(c) A small ventilation shaft.
(d) In a short tunnel.

10. How many men are on the Delta Force team near the Omega Drift Station?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

11. How large is the boulder that lands in front of the ice boat as Amanda, Jenny, and Craig flee?
(a) Size of a tire.
(b) Size of a car.
(c) Size of an elephant.
(d) Size of a cow.

12. How fast is the Polar Sentinel going as it heads back to the Ice Station in Chapter 12? .
(a) 42 knots
(b) 52 knots.
(c) 25 knots.
(d) 35 knots.

13. When Matt regains consciousness after being captured by the Russians, where is he?
(a) A cell on Level 4.
(b) A small storage room.
(c) A room on Level 1.
(d) In an office.

14. In Chapter 10, where did the Russians find a seaman hiding?
(a) NASA station.
(b) Sno-cat.
(c) Crawler.
(d) Research shack.

15. What color is the rope that Amanda climbs as she scales the ice cliff in Chapter 9?
(a) Blue.
(b) Brown.
(c) Green.
(d) Yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many feet of water cushions the Polar Sentinel when Omega station blows up?

2. Who escapes with Jenny from Omega?

3. How long did the Russians tell Sewell and his staff that they would be kept under guard?

4. How tall is the Russian soldier that Matt runs into as he recons Level 1 and determines how many hostiles stand between his group and freedom?

5. When Jenny reaches her plane, how much warmer does the cabin seem than outdoors?

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