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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kosmik Station?
(a) The orbiter around Quraqua from which Melanie rules.
(b) The orbiter around Pinnacle.
(c) The orbiter around Bellatrix V.
(d) The float pier.

2. What did the Scrivners predict?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A discontinuity.
(c) A war.
(d) A polar shift.

3. What does Richard notice about it?
(a) From the center outward, it is in ever larger circles.
(b) From the center outward, it is a mirror image of itself.
(c) From the center outward, it shows no sign of symmetry.
(d) From the center to the outer ring it is concentric.

4. Where is Richard when Hutch is forced to take off?
(a) Hanging on the cable.
(b) Stuck in the Lower Temple.
(c) In his quarters below.
(d) Unconscious in the dive room.

5. What is the name of the shuttle that Hutch pilots and Richard hitches a ride on?
(a) The 'Quraqua Speedster'.
(b) The 'Winking Jonathan'.
(c) The 'Johann Winckelmann'.
(d) The 'Jonathan Winklerman'.

6. What is the Kosmik lacking as a space station?
(a) Emergency protocols.
(b) Double thick hull.
(c) Evacuation shuttles.
(d) Independent propulsion.

7. Where does everyone gather to ride it out?
(a) The pier.
(b) The main diving pool.
(c) The Lower Temple.
(d) The Alpha shuttle.

8. Who does Melanie call for assistance?
(a) The Wincklemann.
(b) The Alpha shuttle.
(c) Carson.
(d) Quraqua.

9. When does Hutch return to Earth?
(a) Aug. 3rd.
(b) July 4th.
(c) May 6th.
(d) June 5th.

10. What do Janet and Hutch do?
(a) Create a foam snowball and launch it at Melanie.
(b) Unpack the shuttle.
(c) Uncrate the tablets for deciphering.
(d) Feed the remaining evacuees.

11. What is surprising about the figure Harry discovers in the friezes on the Temple?
(a) They exist on every planet they find.
(b) There is one the same on Iapetus.
(c) There are others on Earth.
(d) It is depicting a monument maker.

12. Where is the first sign of the beginning of the terraforming?
(a) In the western sky.
(b) In the southern sky.
(c) In the eastern sky.
(d) In the northern sky.

13. What can Richard feel on the bottom?
(a) The undertow.
(b) The volcanic eruption.
(c) The aftershock.
(d) The explosion.

14. What does Harvey convey to Melanie?
(a) That he doesn't care what she wants.
(b) That he thinks they should go ahead anyway.
(c) That Ian Helm is not responding.
(d) That they should wait another day.

15. Where are Hutch's quarters located?
(a) Cliffside.
(b) Seapoint.
(c) Oz.
(d) Knothic Towers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many APVs and shuttles does the Kosmik have?

2. How many 'tugboats' are pulling snowballs into orbit around Quraqua?

3. Who does Hutch enlist to help her pay Melanie back for her stunt with the snowball?

4. What do they still require to decipher the language?

5. Who is brought to the Wincklemann by Hutch in the next load?

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