Seveneves Quiz

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What is the distinction between Kath Two's Survey team, and the other known as Snake Eaters? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

Survey measures landscapes for future habitats. Snake Eaters raise serpent-like creatures as food-stock.

Survey is forbidden contact with newly-seeded life. Snake Eaters monitor progress of ecosystems.

Kath Two's team are list-makers. Snake Eaters are tasked with weeding out dangerous life-forms.

Survey is an earth-science team. Snake Eaters are special-ops military.

During the spacecraft Endurance's 3-year flight to Cleft, how is incoming lunar debris avoided? (from Section 4, Chapters 10—12)

By staying in an orbit much higher than the debris field.

Through deploying massive shields built from asteroid-mined iron.

Through three shifts of full-time sensor watchers, and constant thruster firings to avoid detected threats.

By zapping rocks with a military-grade beam weapon.

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)

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.

The construction is to be distributed among a global collective.

President Flaherty illegally flees Earth in an experimental Space Shuttle-like craft, and must be rescued by Ivy Xiao and Dinah MacQuarie, who literally want to kill her for this stunt. Why? (from Section 3, Chapters 7—9)

The two women strongly object to Flaherty's nuking the protesters.

The Cloud Ark and its hundreds of arklets must waste precious fuel reserved for avoidance of lunar debris in order to move out of Flaherty's reckless course.

Ivy and Dinah know Flaherty will attempt to usurp command from Markus Leuker.

Because Flaherty has selfishly squandered a billion-dollar piece of hardware.

The Casting of Lots (where young women and men were chosen to become "Arkers") proves to be not as random as planned, resulting in Venezuelan protesters threatening to fire weaponized rockets at the nearby space port used to launch vital supplies to the Cloud Ark. U.S. president Julia Flaherty orders a limited nuclear strike and wipes out the "pirate" ships. What prompted this? (from Section 3, Chapters 7—9)

The President is sinking into madness because national leaders are forbidden to abandon their countries for life in orbit.

Elitist politicians picking and choosing for sameness over diversity, and lying about it.

The protesters fired the first round.

China, in cahoots with the United States, wants complete control over the launches.