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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. How long ago did Dr. Willig's wife die?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 3 years.

2. How many levels are there in Ice Station Grendel?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

3. Where did Lacy Devlin attend graduate school?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Dartmouth.

4. What is the name of the sky diver that Matt killed?
(a) Aleks.
(b) Mikal.
(c) Igor.
(d) Stefan.

5. How far is the USS Polar Sentinel from Prudhoe Bay in Chapter 5?
(a) 400 miles.
(b) 550 miles.
(c) 250 miles.
(d) 300 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname is given to the class of submarine that the USS Polar Sentinel belongs to?

2. How far is Matt's camp from the waterfall where he shoots one of the sky divers?

3. Where does Henry Ogden tell Amanda that specimens of the walking whale have been found before?

4. How old is Dr. Henry Ogden?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 6, how many more sunrises does Matt expect to see before the sun will stay in the sky and not set?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is an ice island?

2. What does the creature look like that Lacy sees?

3. Why and how does Jennifer Aratuk run her father's trapline?

4. Describe the cabin that Matt helped to build and that Jenny and her father live in.

5. What does it mean to Viktor when he learns that the U.S. Delta Force has been mobilized?

6. Why is the Sentinel all but invisible to most means of detection?

7. Why is Matt shocked when he sees the pilot from the downed plane?

8. To what does Dr. Willig compare the creatures in the Crawl Space?

9. Why was Craig sent to the drift station to do a story?

10. What does Perry remember finding at the Russian ice base?

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