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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before the main course at dinner, what did Captain Smith do?
(a) Decide who was going to be on duty the next day.
(b) Relay current information according to latest news.
(c) Decide the menu for the coming day.
(d) Relay gossip obtained over the monitor.

2. Zero gravity caused Dr. Floyd not to be able to do what?
(a) Consume coffee.
(b) Eat well.
(c) Sleep well.
(d) Drink alcohol.

3. What did the monster appear to be to the crew?
(a) A mammoth.
(b) A shark.
(c) A dinosaur.
(d) A parrot.

4. What is Dr. Heywood Floyd's new nickname?
(a) Captain Floyd.
(b) Matey Floyd.
(c) Heywood Suicide.
(d) Suicide Floyd.

5. What did Dr.Floyd suggest as a name for the water on Haley's comet?
(a) Haley's Restoring Hydrocarbons.
(b) Haley's Patent Purgative.
(c) Haley's Pure Water.
(d) Haley's Wonder Laxative.

6. What was a sign of recent occupation on Europa that Van der Berg saw?
(a) An abandoned shoe.
(b) Foot prints in the snow.
(c) A torn page from a book.
(d) A rag doll.

7. What is a concern of Floyd's about the diamond market?
(a) It will be flooded.
(b) It will make space travel less expensive.
(c) It will make diamonds worthless.
(d) It will cause too many people on Europa to kill for them.

8. What planet's core does Floyd believe contributed to the making of a diamond Mount Zeus?
(a) Earth.
(b) Saturn.
(c) Venus.
(d) Jupitor.

9. What does the perturbation theory state?
(a) That parts of Jupitor will return periodically to the point of origin.
(b) That Mount Zeus will rise again.
(c) That what comes around goes around.
(d) That what goes up must come down.

10. What could be exposed on Europa but not anywhere else in the Solar System?
(a) Hair.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Bare skin.
(d) Civilian clothes.

11. How does Chang removed the shuttle from the Universe?
(a) Flew it out of the ship.
(b) Pushed it out of the cargo hold.
(c) Rolled it out of the ship.
(d) Picked it up out of the ship with a crane.

12. How did Mr.Chang propose they get to their destination?
(a) Move the Universe.
(b) Fly the shuttle.
(c) Make a boat.
(d) Walk.

13. Of what is Mount Zeus made?
(a) Glass.
(b) Ice.
(c) Diamond.
(d) Rock.

14. Who interviewed Van der Berg about the Mount Zeus?
(a) Sir Lawrence.
(b) Heywood Floyd.
(c) Victor Willis.
(d) William Tsung.

15. What was Captain Laplace's main problem as the ship drifted on the Europan sea?
(a) Keeping the crew busy.
(b) Keeping the ship clean.
(c) Keeping the hull airtight.
(d) Making good coffee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only living man to have witnessed the birth of a new sun and solar system?

2. What will happen to Heywood Floyd?

3. Though van der Berg could see no one, who did Chris Floyd see there?

4. What was Floyd's grandfather wearing in his illusion?

5. What was the advantage the Earth's explorers had over the Galaxy crew?

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