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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does McFarlane and Amira see jogging in foul weather on the deck of the Rolvaag in Chapter 20?
(a) Howell.
(b) Glinn.
(c) Bramwell.
(d) Britton.

2. What does Amira suggest is off about the color of the meteorite, as she explains in Chapter 25?
(a) No meteorite in history has ever been that color.
(b) No known metal alloys can create such a color.
(c) It is only a reflection of the soil around it.
(d) It is paint put on the meteorite by jokesters.

3. Where does Amira tell McFarlane that Glinn earned his military experience?
(a) Russia.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Iraq.
(d) Korea.

4. Why does Palmer Lloyd go to the Kalahari Desert to see Sam McFarlane in Chapter 4?
(a) To ask him to head his new science museum.
(b) To ask him to to ask Masangkay to sell Lloyd his latest discovery.
(c) To ask him to organize an expedition to recover a meteorite.
(d) To ask him to finish Masangkay's expedition.

5. In Chapter 9, what author does Britton quote before she leaves Glinn?
(a) W.H. Auden.
(b) Stephen King.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a dead man switch?

2. Who does Glinn reveal has the only key to the dead man switch in Chapter 13?

3. What does Amira claim uses more calories than jogging?

4. What does Lloyd want to call the meteorite?

5. Where did Wilson Atcitty find a large bone protruding from a sandstone wall as described in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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