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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25, The Shrouded World | Chapter 26, Night Watch.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr Floyd's return to Earth after his bone-breaking accident and following stay at the Space Hospital resulted in what?
(a) He developed pneumonia and had to have antibiotics.
(b) He developed a taste for fried chicken.
(c) He developed a a need for supplemental Oxygen.
(d) He developed bone necrosis in his broken bones and had to be sent back to space.

2. What was one of the principle tourist attractions on Haley's Comet?
(a) Lake Mead.
(b) The docking station.
(c) The geysers.
(d) Lake Tuonela.

3. How did Rosie McMullen hijack the ship?
(a) Held Second Officer Chang at gunpoint..
(b) Shot Second Officer Chang in the leg.
(c) Held Second Officer Chang hostage.
(d) Locked Second Officer Chang in a closet.

4. Where does Dr Heywood Floyd reside?
(a) Saturn Outer Rings.
(b) Regency Hotel.
(c) Pasteur Space Hospital.
(d) Mars' Embassy.

5. Rolf van der Berg volunteered for what position on the chartered mission with Captain Eric Laplace?
(a) Mission scientist.
(b) Mission planetologist.
(c) Mission cook.
(d) Mission navigator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who would be chartering the reconnaissance mission granted by the Planetary Science Foundation?

2. The reconnaissance mission will travel close to what planet?

3. Where on Europa is the second penetrometer to be dropped?

4. Why are cave-ins impossible on the comet's surface?

5. Other than Mars, what was the only other world that Rolph van der Berg thought could be inhabitable?

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