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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Early in Chapter 4, Rod is no longer interested in the survival exam, but instead interested in what?
(a) Determining what planet he is on.
(b) Survival.
(c) Being with his family.
(d) Discovering stobor.

2. What, according to Rod's instructor, is the most dangerous animal known?
(a) Man.
(b) The leopard.
(c) An alien.
(d) The snow ape.

3. What element is needed to power the transport tunnels?
(a) Cadmium.
(b) Plutonium.
(c) Calcium.
(d) Uranium.

4. How do Rod and Jack break the fever of the person they discovered in a tree in Chapter 6?
(a) They bathe him with water, then take turns talking to him to keep him alert.
(b) They pour water on his face to revive him, then give him medicine.
(c) They pinch his ear lobe to partially revive him, then give him medicine and water.
(d) They pinch his ear lobe to partially revive him, then give him roasted liver and water.

5. What was Dr. Ramsbotham trying to invent when he made his greatest discovery?
(a) A cure for cancer.
(b) A transport tunnel.
(c) A time machine.
(d) A virtual travel viewer.

6. At the beginning of Chapter 4, why does Rod believe he missed the recall signal to go to the exit gate?
(a) He might have miscalculated the direction of sunrise.
(b) He might have been asleep.
(c) He had been unconscious sometimes, laying in a tree, while his arm healed.
(d) His ears were stopped up after swimming in the river.

7. What unit of currency does Rod spend while watching the travelers at Emigrants' Gap?
(a) Luna dollars.
(b) Half-pluton coins.
(c) Terra half-dollars.
(d) Bedlovian coins.

8. What sort of outerwear does Rod plan to take with him, for the survival test?
(a) A combat parka suit.
(b) Dress armor with gauntlets.
(c) A chlorine-resistant scuba suit.
(d) A space suit.

9. In Chapter 2, Rod's sister Helen has come home from where?
(a) The Australasian Republic.
(b) The Heavenly Mountains.
(c) The Amazon.
(d) Luna.

10. How many moons does the unknown planet have, according to Jack?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

11. What sort of gun does Rod obtain from the school armorer, prior to leaving Earth for his final exam?
(a) A Thunderbolt.
(b) A Pluton Flare.
(c) A needle gun with poison pellets.
(d) None.

12. Why do Rod, Jack, and Jimmy alter the placement of their original signal fire in Chapter 7?
(a) The fire keeps getting extinguished by the river.
(b) The fire is too far away to tend properly.
(c) Smoke is coming inside their cave.
(d) Jack trips and burns herself while entering the shelter.

13. What is the name of Helen's knife?
(a) Lady Macbeth.
(b) Bluebeard.
(c) Colonel Bowie.
(d) Mack the Knife.

14. Before Rod leaves for his exam, Helen reminds him that more people have died from what than from bleeding to death?
(a) Disease.
(b) Worry.
(c) Old age.
(d) Drowning.

15. What does Dr. Ramsbotham's invention allow people to do?
(a) By stepping through a gate, people can travel through time.
(b) By using special viewers, people can experience virtual travel.
(c) By stepping through a gate, people can be transported hundreds or thousands of miles in seconds.
(d) By allowing themselves to be frozen, people can wait for terminal illnesses to be curable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What number does Rod draw, for entering the gate to the unknown planet?

2. How much meat does Jack want to take, when the two are ready to part ways?

3. Why has Rod's father made such an unusual decision, as described in Chapter 2?

4. How does Jack keep water inside the shelter?

5. Why does Deacon Matson flunk four students before the exam begins?

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