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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 does Jago want from Kin?
(a) He wants her to see the flat planet.
(b) He wants her to pilot his ship to the flat planet.
(c) He wants to buy her day credits.
(d) He wants her to build a planet for him.

2. Kin wrote a popular book on what subject?
(a) The Wheelers.
(b) The time before the Company.
(c) The strata machine.
(d) The Spindle Kings.

3. Kin thinks that the humans on the flat planet suspect which of the following?
(a) The ship is an instrument of the devil.
(b) The ship is an alien craft.
(c) Their planet is flat.
(d) Their planet is artificial.

4. 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.

5. How is the ship piloted down to the planet?
(a) By following a robotic bird.
(b) By tractor beams.
(c) By an automated computer.
(d) Through a hole in its atmosphere.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Great Spindle Kings were believed to have what capability?

2. The ship is stocked with a huge number and variety of what?

3. What does a "watcher" do?

4. What do Kin and the others do with Jago?

5. What is the function of a strata machine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the explorers able to communicate with the inhabitants of the flat planet?

2. Describe Silver's appearance and personality. Why is she interested in the flat planet?

3. How did the strata machine chance human history?

4. What is learned about Jago during Silver and Marco's first encounter with him face-to-face?

5. What are Shand proteins, and how are they important to Silver?

6. How do Kin and the others help the sailors who try to visit them?

7. Who is Jago Jalo, and why does he seek out Kin Arad?

8. What does the Company provide for humanity as a whole and, specifically, for its employees?

9. What evidence does Jago produce to back up his claims about the flat planet?

10. What is unusual about the raven's behavior as the group prepares to leave Kung?

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