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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. What variables does the narrator use to refer to the two moments in his life that he thinks others must be observing from far-away galaxies?
(a) The variables a and b.
(b) The variables e and c.
(c) The variables pi and phi.
(d) The variables x and y.

2. Why does Qfwfq bet that there will be atoms?
(a) He makes mathematical calculations and predicts the atoms are coming.
(b) He sees one atom and realizes that more will probably follow soon.
(c) He gets a strange feeling like the weather is changing and intuits that atoms are coming.
(d) He reads a sign from a previous universe and interprets that it means there will be atoms soon.

3. What name do the New Ones give to Qfwfq?
(a) The Large One.
(b) The Sad One.
(c) The Ugly One.
(d) The Grimacing One.

4. Why is the narrator certain Ursula H'x and Lieutenant Fenimore can't meet?
(a) They cannot move as they fall.
(b) They are all falling parallel to each other.
(c) Lieutenant Fenimore and Ursula H'x are in separate dimensions.
(d) Ursula H'x is completely contained in an inaccessible sphere.

5. What does one of the spectators at the fight between Zahn and Qfwfq call out?
(a) Give it to him, Dinosaur!
(b) Die, Dinosaur!
(c) He's a Dinosaur!
(d) Run, Dinosaur!

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does N'ba N'ga live?

2. What sign does the narrator read that at first he's happy about, but later is disappointed by?

3. What does Qfwfq identify as the first numbers to exist?

4. To what does the narrator compare the paths of the characters' falls?

5. How does the narrator see the shape of space?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the initial wealth that Qfwfq builds up?

2. How does Lll react when she first meets N'ba N'ga?

3. Describe Lieutenant Fenimore.

4. Why does the narrator not want to show his desire to meet Ursula at the beginning of the story "The Form of Space"?

5. What does N'ba N'ga like about the water where he lives?

6. How does the narrator see evolution as confining?

7. What does the narrator think the first sign he sees is referring to?

8. How do the New Ones' perception of dinosaurs change over the time Qfwfq is with them?

9. How does Zahn first react to Qfwfq?

10. Describe the problems with the advice N'ba N'ga gives his family.

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