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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 many sentinels does Dr. Ogden believe stay awake when the other grendels hibernate?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

3. In Chapter 14, how does Jenny get Bane to stop barking?
(a) By pulling his collar.
(b) Tap on his muzzle.
(c) Hand signal.
(d) A sharp whispered command.

4. When the demolition expert reports on what he has discovered about the nuclear device, how long do they have before the device will go off?
(a) 70 minutes.
(b) 35 minutes.
(c) 45 minutes.
(d) 55 minutes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What god does Tom remember from his grandfather's stories?

2. 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?

3. What color is Captain First Rank Anton Mikovsky's underway uniform?

4. When Jenny, Craig, and the rest of the group come to a black chute that is too steep to climb with boots and hands, who climbs it with steel crampons?

5. Who left schematics of the Ice Station for Bratt to use?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Dr. Ogden's theory about the grendels' social structure?

2. Why did no one investigate when communications with the Ice Station were lost?

3. Why does Dr. Ogden stay behind at the Ice Station?

4. How is the way that the grendels track Craig's group as they attempt to escape across the ice similar to the way polar bears hunt?

5. What is Mikovsky's primary mission?

6. Why does Matt believe that Bane is killed?

7. What is Mikovsky thinking after the Polar Sentinel pings his sub?

8. What does Matt believe it would take for Delta Force to take the Ice Station from the Russians?

9. Why did the Russians bring Jenny and John to the base?

10. What happened to some of the survivors of the U.S. Arctic steamer Jeannette?

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