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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason is it revealed in Chapter 9 Captain Britton went to rehab?

2. What is the weather like in Chapter 1 as Masangkay unearths part of his find?

3. In Chapter 38, Amira tells McFarlane that she collected what unusual arachnid?

4. How does Puppup react in Chapter 21 as Lloyd, Glinn, and McFarlane admire Isla Desolacion?

5. How much does Lloyd promise to pay McFarlane in the end of Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is a guard posted at the camp where the meteorite is sitting? What happens on the first night of guard duty?

2. How does Glinn and his team plan to move the meteorite from one side of the island to the other?

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

4. What unusual findings do McFarlane and Glinn make when they remove Masangkay's body for study on the ship in Chapter 27?

5. 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?

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

7. What report does McFarlane find in Amira's quarters in Chapter 37? What does this report say? How does McFarlane feel about this report?

8. Why does McFarlane take the broken drill bit to the ship? What does he find on it? What does he decide to do next?

9. Who are the people Sam McFarlane has hired to help him search for meteorites in the Kalahari Desert? How does he win their trust? How does he lose it?

10. Where does Glinn find Captain Britton? How does this pertain to her decision to take the job he has offered her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens once the crew abandons the Rolvaag? Why were they forced to abandon ship in the first place? Where do they go? How do they expect to get rescued? What happens the following morning? What does Amira give to McFarlane? For what reason? What happens to Amira? What happens to McFarlane? What happens to Lloyd? Is this an appropriate result for Lloyd? What does McFarlane realize the meteorite was? Is this accurate information or is McFarlane mentally unbalanced because of the trauma of the ship sinking?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Palmer Lloyd? What is he seen buying in the early chapters of the novel? What is unusual about this purchase? What does this say about Palmer Lloyd? What does the reader later learn that Lloyd is building? What is the purpose of this building? What does the purpose of this building suggest about the conflict that will propel the plot of this novel? What will Lloyd put in this building? What does he ask McFarlane to help him procure for this building? What does Lloyd plan to do with this item?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following style elements in detail, discussing how they impact the overall plot of the novel. Cite examples from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Theme

2) Metaphor

3) Language

4) Character.

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