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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. What worries Kerans about leading the remaining trio?
(a) Their lack of communication devices.
(b) Whether they will listen to him.
(c) Whether he can inspire confidence.
(d) Their lack of supplies.

2. Where do Kerans and Riggs move to after docking the cutter?
(a) Apartment complex.
(b) Poolside.
(c) Rooftop.
(d) Testing center.

3. What has turned the temperate regions of Europe into a flooded tropic?
(a) Melting ice caps.
(b) Increase in global radioactivity.
(c) Massive geophysical upheavals.
(d) Shifts in global landmasses.

4. What does Kerans feel drawn to do in his dream?
(a) Leave the testing station.
(b) Approach Bodkin.
(c) Step into the lagoon.
(d) Wake up.

5. What interrupts the quiet of the lagoon one morning in Chapter 7?
(a) A rumbling earthquake.
(b) A flock of birds.
(c) The sound of a thunderstorm.
(d) A roar of a hydroplane.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Riggs attempt to communicate with Kerans and Beatrice?

2. What symptom has Hardman been experiencing for the past two months?

3. Where do Kerans, Riggs, and the others find Hardman?

4. Why does Kerans approach Beatrice on the rooftop?

5. What does Kerans experience at the beginning of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Lieutenant Hardman?

2. Who is the main character in The Drowned World and how would you describe them?

3. What scientific idea does Bodkin propose?

4. How did the geophysical upheavals impact Earth's climate and the distribution of life?

5. How does Kerans escape the caiman and reach Beatrice's doorstep?

6. Why does Kerans hesitate to leave the comfort of his hotel suite on this particular day?

7. How does the novel address themes of environmental destruction and climate change?

8. What object does Kerans take from the armory and why?

9. Which character is shot and injured by Hardman and how did it happen?

10. Can you describe the “flooded city” in the novel?

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