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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapters 1-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 4?
(a) Manggarai Train Station.
(b) Cape Town, South Africa.
(c) The Clocktower Safe House.
(d) Immari Jakarta Headquarters.

2. Who is the West Jakarta Police Chief that walks into the crime scene at the Autism Research Center in Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 5?
(a) Vincent Tarea.
(b) Adam Lynch.
(c) Nakula Pang.
(d) Eddi Kusnadi.

3. What is the name of the eight-year-old autistic child that has just completed the puzzle Dr. Warner’s team has designed to identify savants in the opening of Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 3?
(a) Adi.
(b) Surya.
(c) Uri.
(d) Milo.

4. In the Prologue, Karl Selig watches as an iceberg crumbles. Who is Karl’s grad school friend that he calls to “come check this out”?
(a) David Vale.
(b) Josh Cohen.
(c) Ben Adelson.
(d) Steve Cooper.

5. David Vale tells Josh Cohen in Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 12 that of the 240 attendees at the conference, how many “never made it home”?
(a) 142.
(b) 120.
(c) 26.
(d) 201.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Indonesia declare independence from the Netherlands?

2. What is the name of the man introduced by the narrator in the opening of Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 2, who is watching the man who buys a New York Times at the newsstand?

3. When the Nazis sent expeditions to Antarctica, they claimed part of the continent as a new German province named what, according to the narrator in the Prologue?

4. The iceberg that has broken off from Antarctica is described in the Prologue as having a surface area covering how much space?

5. According to the narrator in the Prologue, Antarctica holds what percentage of the world’s ice?

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