Rendezvous with Rama | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1-3

1. What event do the inhabitants of Earth see as inevitable?

Catastrophic destruction caused by a meteorite from space landing in an inhabited city.

2. What location is home to more than a million people who had their hearing permanently damaged in 2077?

Austria.

3. What cities narrowly miss being destroyed in the 20th century?

Moscow and Vladivostok.

4. When did the inhabitants of Europe see a dazzling fireball appear in the eastern sky?

September 11.

5. According to Chapter 1, what happens after the initial shock wore off in 2077?

The people of Earth became united and determined.

6. How does the book describe the world's population at the end of the 21st century?

The human race has spread from pole to pole.

7. What loss is so great that it was beyond all computation?

The loss to art, to history, to science--and to the...
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