Seveneves Quiz

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Why is Markus Leuker consumed with the idea of the Big Ride? (from Section 4, Chapters 10—12)

To distract him from despair over losing his family on Earth.

To ensure he's immortalized as humankind's savior.

To prove its superiority over the other two options of "Dump and Run" and "Pure Swarm."

It's the only way to provide humankind with absolute shelter from space debris and radiation.

When U.S. President Julia Bliss Flaherty describes the proposed Cloud Ark Swarm as a "distributed architecture," what does she mean? (from Section 1, Chapters 1—3)

The construction is to be distributed among a global collective.

Widely separated sections, in order to decentralize and protect the Human Genetic Archive from incoming lunar debris.

The Cloud Ark is designed to mimic a beehive.

The Cloud Ark's orbit will be modeled with random number generators.

Why do exasperated ground-based engineers demand Dinah send out her robots to capture images of the International Space Station? (from Section 2, Chapters 4—6)

To collect material for bragging rights.

Their CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software can't keep up with the pace of construction and modification.

For proof-of-concept verification of robot prototypes.

To check the exterior for micrometeorite damage.

When the Diggers (descendants of Old Earth's Rufus MacQuarie) are discovered to have survived underground 5,000 years after Hard Rain, why is their leader hostile toward Spacers? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

Spacers have killed Diggers.

He fears losing control and authority over his womb-like world.

He resents Spacers' "reclaiming" a world no longer theirs.

He hates Spacers for their cowardly abandonment of the planet.

Only eight people—all women—end up surviving on Cleft. Since the Human Genetic Archive has been destroyed, how will they sustain humankind's legacy? (from Section 4, Chapters 10—12)

Sperm can be fabricated artificially in Moira Crewe's genetics lab.

A rogue Cloud Ark vessel piloted by men manages to reach Cleft.

Some HGA samples were saved in a classified vault.

Through automictic parthenogenesis, a method of producing offspring from one parent, and ensuring genetic defects are eliminated.