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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 through 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is Arachna's sun off during every 250-year cycle?
(a) 155 years.
(b) 200 years.
(c) 215 years.
(d) 190 years.

2. What member of the crew reports seeing missiles targeting the Qeng Ho flagship, and then reports that the ship is gone in Chapter Seven?
(a) Pham Trilini.
(b) Gonle Fong.
(c) Captain Park.
(d) Jimmy Diem.

3. Ezr learns in Chapter Ten that the pain he'd felt was a virus given to many of the Qeng Ho, designed to do what?
(a) Destroy bones and joints.
(b) Keep them incapacitated.
(c) Make them insane.
(d) Blind them.

4. What refers to the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and do useful work?
(a) Atomic power.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Thermal energy.
(d) Isotopes.

5. In Chapter Sixteen, Ritsel briefs Thomas on specific issues and accuses Qiwi of what?
(a) Hearsay.
(b) Subversion.
(c) Treason.
(d) Arson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the section of the ship where the waste is handled?

2. In Chapter Nineteen, the Spiders are how far through their Light years?

3. What member of one of the families that owns interest in the Qeng Ho expedition is working as an apprentice Trader when the ships reach Arachna?

4. In Chapter Fifteen, there's a meeting in which who learns that one of the men focused on a particular project has become so caught up in the technicalities that he is no longer making progress?

5. In Chapter Three, Ezr's group finds what appears to be the remains of what structure in Arachna?

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