A Fire upon the Deep Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who keep out of sight?
(a) No one.
(b) Peregrine and Scriber.
(c) Just Tyrathect.
(d) Just Jaqueramaphan.

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

3. What does Johanna realize about her captives?
(a) They confer on everything.
(b) They are not very intelligent.
(c) If she hurts one, she hurts them all.
(d) They are very slow moving.

4. What does Johanna call her captives?
(a) Barbs.
(b) She prefers not to even address them.
(c) Tines.
(d) Caps.

5. Why can Ja not reveal Scriber's murderer?
(a) He is not a talker.
(b) He is under compulsion from the murderer.
(c) He does not know who the murderer is.
(d) He wants revenge on his own.

6. With what does the narrator say the humans are playing?
(a) Fire.
(b) Fortune.
(c) Energy.
(d) Life.

7. What would the Straumli archeologists sell when they were done?
(a) Water of the planet they are exploring.
(b) Parcels of land of the planet they are exploring.
(c) Minerals from of the planet they are exploring.
(d) The location of the planet they are exploring.

8. What is built faster than anything on Straum?
(a) Protocals.
(b) Food stations.
(c) Ties.
(d) A local network.

9. What does one poster on the net think think the Blight needs?
(a) A new paradigm.
(b) A soul.
(c) A new home galaxy.
(d) Something from humans that it cannot simply take.

10. About what does Steel worry about the "pups" in the unburned coffins?
(a) That they will spread disease if awakened.
(b) That they will die if he cannot figure out how to bring them back from sleep.
(c) That they will die of grief when they learn their parents are dead.
(d) That they could mature and destroy his world.

11. What melts the coldsleep boxes?
(a) A sophisticated warming device that malfunctions.
(b) A laser gun.
(c) A crude flamethrower.
(d) Hot water.

12. What does Amdi perhaps consider Jefri?
(a) A surrogate parent.
(b) Food.
(c) A pack member.
(d) An enemy.

13. What have the archeologists awakened?
(a) A path home.
(b) A galaxy mother.
(c) A new evil.
(d) An old evil.

14. What does one Post on the net dub the Helper?
(a) A fraud, a screwball pushing a coercive, messianic religion/empire.
(b) A meglomaniac.
(c) A messiah.
(d) A sincere pilgrim.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which fragment escapes the butchering of Scriber?

2. What does Woodcarver want to learn?

3. What happens to Pham after the Old One's death?

4. Who sees the cargo shell land?

5. What does the crew get past Johanna?

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