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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. Who argues that Spiders don't need to go through a Dark in order to have a soul in the debate in Chapter Twenty-Four?
(a) Sherkaner.
(b) Director Ann Reynolt.
(c) Ezr Vinh.
(d) Thomas Nau.

2. In Chapter Thirty-One, what do the children hear just as the kidnappers arrive and try to move them to a different location?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Sirens.
(c) Gunfire.
(d) Birds.

3. In Chapter Thirty-Four, Ezr sees Qiwi and realizes that she's grown into what?
(a) A beautiful woman.
(b) A vicious monarch.
(c) An evil matriarch.
(d) A Spider.

4. Sherkaner's wife reveals that Pedure is actually from what faction in Chapter Twenty-Five?
(a) The Crown.
(b) The Emergents.
(c) The Qeng Ho.
(d) Tiefstadt.

5. In Chapter Twenty-One, Thomas Nau has to hollow out a cave in one of the orbiting what?
(a) Wormholes.
(b) Planets.
(c) Meteors.
(d) Diamonds.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Twenty-Eight, four children of Serkaner's arrive at what location?

2. With whom was Pham Trilini in love with and had many children, some while he was away building the empire they dreamed of, as recalled in Chapter Twenty-Two?

3. Who climbs a shelf and swings forward, "splatting" herself against the glass separating the control room with the area set up for the debate in Chapter Twenty-Four?

4. What redheaded problem-solver of sorts has been focused in Chapter Twenty-Two?

5. Who says that he has information about Pham Nuwen which has been moved to a place where Ezr can read about the "atrocities" in Chapter Thirty-Six?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Unnerby feel about Sherkaner's children in Chapter Forty-Three?

2. What empire does Pham hope to build in Chapter Twenty-Two? How?

3. Who are the parents of the young children at the Museum in Chapter Twenty-Eight? What do they reveal?

4. What children arrive at the Royal Museum in Chapters Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight?

5. What is revealed by Qiwi and Pham Trilini in Chapter Twenty? How does Ezr respond?

6. What are Pham's thoughts on the focusing process in Chapter Twenty-Two?

7. What beliefs drive the Spiders to reproduce in cycles?

8. What does Thomas Nau learn about the kidnapping in Chapter Thirty? Who does Victory Smith lash out at?

9. How does Pham contact Ezr in Chapter Twenty-Six? What is Ezr's reaction to Pham?

10. What is Pham's reaction when Qiwi is attacked by Ezr in Chapter Twenty-Five?

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