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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 does McFarlane want to call the meteorite?
(a) McFarlane meteorite.
(b) MasanFarlane meteorite.
(c) Masangkay meteorite.
(d) EES meteorite.

2. What did Nestor Masangkay call Isla Desolacion?
(a) The edge of the universe.
(b) The edge of the world.
(c) A true frozen wonderland.
(d) A true place of desolation.

3. What is the 'night lunch' mentioned in Chapter 11?
(a) A routine snack sailors partake in.
(b) McFarlane's nickname for a brief flirtation.
(c) The first meal upon the Rolvaag.
(d) A celebrated meal when a ship crosses the date line.

4. What is Isla Desolacion?
(a) An island off the coast of Peru.
(b) An island off the coast of Brazil.
(c) An island off the coast of Mexico.
(d) An island off the coast of Chile.

5. Why does Glinn tell Britton in Chapter 18 that they should not worry about Vallenar?
(a) He has no authority over them.
(b) No one believed him.
(c) He is just a crazy old man.
(d) No one respects him enough to care about his opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of ship has Glinn purchased for the recovery of the meteorite?

2. Why does Masangkay touch his find in Chapter 1?

3. What did the large bone found in a sandstone wall of a canyon turn out to be as described in Chapter 3?

4. In Chapter 28, how does Vallenar force the man he is interviewing to tell him the truth?

5. What does Masangkay find using his electromagnetic tomographic sounder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does Puppup tell the men as they make their way to the site of the meteorite in Chapter 22?

2. Why does Glinn gather his team and suggest they end the expedition in Chapter 35? Do they?

3. What causes the computers on the island to fail? What is found in the tunnel with the meteorite?

4. Why does Rochefort go into the tunnel with the jacked up meteorite in Chapter 34? What happens?

5. What does Lloyd do when he first sees the meteorite? Who warns against this action? Why?

6. What is being auction at a Christie's auction house in Chapter 3? What is unusual about the buyer?

7. What does McFarlane use to create a demonstration of what happens to the ground when a meteorite falls from the sky? Why does McFarlane put on this demonstration? What is the reaction of his audience?

8. What does Glinn's company, Effective Engineering Solutions, Inc., do? What is their success record? Why does Lloyd hire them?

9. What does a native man find on Isla Desolacion when paddles there in Chapter 2? What does he do about it?

10. What does Dr. Brambell say caused Masangkay's death? How does this impact the expedition at this point?

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