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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) Cape Town, South Africa.
(b) The Clocktower Safe House.
(c) Manggarai Train Station.
(d) Immari Jakarta Headquarters.

2. The iceberg that has broken off from Antarctica is described in the Prologue as having a surface area covering how much space?
(a) 47 square miles.
(b) 26 square miles.
(c) 15 square miles.
(d) 121 square miles.

3. Who is the director of the Clocktower counterterrorism organization in Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 2?
(a) Adam Lynch.
(b) Nakula Pang.
(c) Howard Keegan.
(d) Dmitry Kozlov.

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) Ben Adelson.
(b) David Vale.
(c) Steve Cooper.
(d) Josh Cohen.

5. The research vessel described in the opening of the Prologue is said to be how many miles off the coast of Antarctica?
(a) 45 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 88 miles.
(d) 62 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in the novel’s Prologue, the Nazis sent expeditions to Antarctica in what years?

2. What is the name of the research vessel that is described in the opening of the Prologue?

3. In Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 1, Dr. Kate Warner finds a photograph among her things. It is the only photograph Kate has of her childhood home where?

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

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”?

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