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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 destroys the dumbwaiter?
(a) Marco destroys it in anger.
(b) A mob of religious locals.
(c) A sudden landslide.
(d) An artificial bolt of lightning.

2. Who pleads with Kin's captors not to do what they were planning to do with her?
(a) Another captive.
(b) The local mayor.
(c) A priest.
(d) A young woman.

3. What does Kin request from the Djinnee?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A magical sword.
(c) A new dumbwaiter.
(d) Directions to the hub.

4. For what does the man whom the characters meet in the desert want to trade?
(a) The destroyed dumbwaiter.
(b) The rights to salvage the crashed ship.
(c) Silver's services as a linguist.
(d) The space suits.

5. What kind of structure do Kin and the others discover as they approach the center of the flat planet?
(a) A valley.
(b) A fortress.
(c) A dome.
(d) A tower.

Short Answer Questions

1. After they make contact with the sailors and their people, where do the explorers decide to try to head?

2. Where does Kin hide from her captors?

3. What interrupts Kin and Silver's conversation?

4. Why does Kin think that the Company would never build a planet like the flat Earth?

5. The locals who arrested her believe Kin to be __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the group discover at the ship's crash-site?

2. What happens to Silver as she and the others near the hub?

3. What causes the brawl in the Great Hall?

4. What is unusual about the first island that Kin and the others come to after leaving the sailors' homeland? What danger does the group face there?

5. Whom do Kin and the others meet in the desert? What is the result of this meeting?

6. Describe the creature put into the cell next to Kin. What does the group eventually learn and speculate about it?

7. What do the explorers come to believe about the machinery of the planet?

8. How does the group confirm that they are being followed?

9. Why is Kin arrested?

10. How does Kin escape after the man whom she and the others meet in the desert turns on them?

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