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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are Blueshell and Greenstalk sent?
(a) To produce their third generation.
(b) On a secret mission to the Bottom of the Beyond.
(c) To rescue some miners stranded in the Blight.
(d) To an island prison.

2. From whose perspective is chapter 4 narrated?
(a) Peregrine and Scriber.
(b) Arne.
(c) Johanna.
(d) Sjane.

3. What sort of welcome do Peregrine and Scriber receive?
(a) A hero's greeting.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Hostile.
(d) Derisive.

4. How does the new planet appear?
(a) Too hot to live on the surface.
(b) Cold and inhospitable.
(c) Not ideal for humans but usuable.
(d) Ideal for human life.

5. What does one post say about Homo sapiens and being controlled?
(a) They should be controlled by remote collars.
(b) They have several built-in structures supporting remote control.
(c) They have no built-in structures supporting remote control.
(d) They are too strong for anything but self determination.

6. What do the Olsndots set up?
(a) A language translater.
(b) An ultraviolet desenthisizer.
(c) Ultralight communication.
(d) A perimeter guard.

7. What could steal the secrets the Straumli archeologists uncover?
(a) Star gazer.
(b) The mad ones.
(c) The Powers.
(d) The old ones.

8. What do the Straumli archeologists call their settlement?
(a) Little Straumli.
(b) Extra Straumli.
(c) The earth lab.
(d) The high lab.

9. Who is blamed for the Blight?
(a) The Woodcarvers.
(b) Homo sapiens.
(c) The Old One.
(d) Pham.

10. Who hopes to prevent the plans for the alien ship?
(a) Tyrathect.
(b) Jefri Olsndot.
(c) Vrinimi Org.
(d) Amdiranifani.

11. How many stars does the planet the archeologists explore have?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

12. How does Ravna wish she could learn more about the Slowness?
(a) By tapping Pham's memories.
(b) By accessing classified files.
(c) By writing a computer program to ferret out the information.
(d) By asking the net's user group.

13. How is the archive described?
(a) Simple.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Sentient.
(d) Hostile.

14. Which fragment escapes the butchering of Scriber?
(a) Cri.
(b) Sci.
(c) Be.
(d) Ja.

15. What does Woodcarver want to learn?
(a) How to make Johanna's picture box work.
(b) How to fly the ship Johanna arrives in.
(c) How to walk on 2 limb.s
(d) Johanna's language.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is badly wounded in the fighting?

2. About what does Woodcarver worry?

3. What does Steel's best eightsome show?

4. What jumps successfully?

5. With whom do Peregrin and Scriber receive an audience?

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