Quiz: The Memory of Ice

1.What did the drill uncover during the polar winter?

Multiple choice

ماذا كشف المثقاب أثناء الشتاء القطبي؟

A vein of liquid water

A rust-coloured layer of volcanic ash

The frozen remains of a mammoth

An abandoned research capsule

2.The team discovered the unusual layer during the bright polar summer.

True or false

اكتشف الفريق الطبقة غير المعتادة خلال صيف القطب المشمس.

True

False

3.In the story, "painstaking" most nearly means:

Vocabulary

في القصة، أقرب معنى لكلمة "painstaking" هو:

done with great care and thoroughness

causing severe physical pain

completed with unusual speed

emotionally distressing to watch

4.A single contaminated sample could ______ months of meticulous analysis.

Complete the sentence

عينة واحدة ملوّثة كفيلة بأن ______ شهورًا من التحليل الدقيق.

reinforce

commemorate

unravel

assemble

5.What does Amara imply when she says the team owes the discovery "something more than our curiosity"?

Comprehension

ماذا تقصد أمارا حين تقول إن الفريق مدينٌ للاكتشاف بأكثر من مجرد فضوله؟

They should keep the discovery secret from rival scientists

They ought to abandon the project before it becomes dangerous

They must sell the sample to fund future expeditions

They must treat the finding with responsibility and rigour, not mere excitement

6.Why does the narrator contrast the archives of civilisations with the archives of the earth?

Comprehension

لماذا يقارن السارد بين أرشيف الحضارات وأرشيف الأرض؟

To prove that ancient peoples secretly understood glaciology

To suggest the earth records everything impartially, while humans record selectively

To argue that written archives are more reliable than natural ones

To show that archives are worthless without trained librarians

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