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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the characters fly the ship around the flat planet?
(a) To slow the ship's orbit.
(b) To avoid its defenses.
(c) To make a safe landing.
(d) To examine it more closely.

2. What is the result of the attack on Kin and the others?
(a) Their ship is totally destroyed.
(b) They drive off the attackers temporarily.
(c) They kill all of the attackers.
(d) They become separated.

3. Kin theorizes that the flow of water on the planet is controlled in what way?
(a) It is not controlled, and the planet is losing water.
(b) By a huge machine.
(c) By gravity.
(d) By force fields.

4. The Great Spindle Kings were believed to have what capability?
(a) Clairvoyance.
(b) Telekinesis.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Telepathy.

5. How does the raven escape from its cage?
(a) It burns its way out.
(b) The cage was left open.
(c) Kin releases it.
(d) It picks the lock.

6. Why does Kin decide to go with Jago?
(a) The Company orders her to go.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Money.
(d) She needs to flee from the Company.

7. Kin's coworkers believed it would be funny to do what to the planet they were creating?
(a) Make it flat.
(b) Make it a cube.
(c) Leave their mark on it.
(d) Give it no atmosphere.

8. Why does Jago Jalo select Kin to see the planet he has discovered?
(a) She knows how to create new planets.
(b) She is capable of navigating a ship to it.
(c) She is well known for handling sensitive information.
(d) She is an expert on the Spindle Kings.

9. On what planet was Marco raised?
(a) Kung.
(b) Shard.
(c) The flat planet.
(d) Earth.

10. Why does Silver agree to go on the expedition?
(a) For its historical significance.
(b) For personal reasons that she does not share.
(c) Because she owes Jago a favor.
(d) She is bored with her home planet.

11. Kin and the others discover what about the history of the flat planet?
(a) No one remembers its history before about a hundred years ago.
(b) It is very similar to Earth's.
(c) It is radically different from Earth's.
(d) There are many obvious contradictions in it.

12. Without day credits, employees of the Company would suffer what effects?
(a) Rapid aging.
(b) Almost immediate death.
(c) Senility.
(d) Cancer.

13. What is Kin waiting for in the lounge in orbit around Kung?
(a) Exchange of her day bills into Kung currency.
(b) Jago Jalo's next instructions.
(c) An old friend.
(d) A shuttle to the planet's surface.

14. Which of the following best characterizes the Kung?
(a) They are peace-loving.
(b) They are prone to violence.
(c) They are xenophobic.
(d) They love exploration.

15. What do Kin and the others decide to do with the ship?
(a) Destroy it.
(b) Abandon it.
(c) Put it on autopilot.
(d) Hide it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Silver's profession?

2. Jago Jalo has a device that allows him to do which of the following?

3. The Spindle Kings were believed to have created new planets for what purpose?

4. Kin thinks that the humans on the flat planet suspect which of the following?

5. How is the ship piloted down to the planet?

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