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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Spiral.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Fern-flower dreams of a dinosaur being teased, what does she do in the dream?
(a) She teases the dinosaur.
(b) She watches and finds it funny.
(c) She watches and finds it upsetting.
(d) She protects the dinosaur.

2. Why is Lll more agile than Qfwfq?
(a) She has run races all her life.
(b) She is younger than Qfwfq.
(c) She was born on land.
(d) She has a new kind of knee joint.

3. Why does Qfwfq start to forget what his sign looks like?
(a) He begins to get older and lose his memory.
(b) He gets distracted by other things and stops thinking about the sign.
(c) He cannot see the sign anymore to remind himself of its details.
(d) He has no other signs by which to note the form of his sign.

4. What does Qfwfq identify as the first numbers to exist?
(a) The numbers i and 0.
(b) The numbers 0 and 1.
(c) The numbers pi and phi.
(d) The numbers e and pi.

5. How are the winner and loser determined in the game Qfwfq and Pfwfp play?
(a) The first person to get an atom to the goal wins.
(b) The first person to get an atom out loses.
(c) The first person to take twenty atoms from his opponent wins.
(d) The first person to run out of atoms loses.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Qfwfq feel as he continues to wait to find his sign after the first galactic revolution?

2. What swarm of insects does the narrator describe flying through the air in the second part of the story, in the railway embankment scene?

3. What type of fish is N'ba N'ga?

4. Does Qfwfq worry when he realizes he's completely forgotten what his sign is like?

5. What job does Zahn recommend Qfwfq for, which Qfwfq would rather not do?

(see the answer key)

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