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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. What could have this place been mistaken for?

2. What is the name of the Roman sailor that arrived on Greenland?

3. What did the U.S. offer the Russians?

4. What did Nichols do, first thing after viewing the contents?

5. Where was the poison for the rest of the delegates put?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Venator feel no remorse for those who had perished when the roof had collapsed?

2. What did Venator consider an acceptable sacrifice for the preservation of these artifacts?

3. What was the hangar and what did it contain?

4. Why did Topiltzin kill Rivas?

5. How was Rivas traced to Nichols?

6. Why did Mr. Schiller take the call?

7. Who was the last one to fall and what did he do?

8. Why would recovery of the sub be a difficult endeavor?

9. What was preventing Pitt from finding the archaeologists camp and how did he eventually find it?

10. What was the secret purpose of the Thursday night poker game?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the nature of barbarity and savages. When taken into context, although Native Americans lived primitively, the barbaric invaders were the europeans who came here and slaughtered villages. What defines a barbarian? A savage? Relate barbarity to developed nations. How do they interact?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Dirk's relationship with his father. How are they similar? How are they different? In what ways do you think the Senator may have been like his son when he was younger? Why do you think his father never developed the way about him Dirk has?

Essay Topic 3

Create a character profile of Topiltzin. What kind of person is he? What would he be most likely to do to his opposition? In what ways would he handle criticism? Who would he be most likely comparable to in our world?

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