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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 44 through 66.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. In Chapter Thirty-Eight, Pham recalls a meeting where he found himself involved in a plot to do what?
(a) Steal money.
(b) Kill billions of people.
(c) Blow up a planet.
(d) Mislead the public.

3. Which of the children who was kidnapped is dead in Chapter Thirty-Two?
(a) Gokna.
(b) Pedure.
(c) Brent.
(d) Trud.

4. In Chapter Twenty-Six, Pham contacts Ezr through a children's game called what?
(a) Beep communication.
(b) Speak it.
(c) Blinkertalk.
(d) Soundwaves.

5. In Chapter Thirty-One, what do the children hear just as the kidnappers arrive and try to move them to a different location?
(a) Gunfire.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Sirens.
(d) Birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means to take advantage of (a person, situation, etc.), especially unethically or unjustly for one's own ends?

2. What was the technology called which were used for many purposes, but Pham's initial contact with them included the owner's use of them to read Pham's organ functions and thought processes without his knowledge that it was happening?

3. On the surface in Chapter Eleven, Jimmy and several members of his crew work while planning an attack on what?

4. Who laments the fate of the children, causing Victory to become enraged and telling him to take his "moral baggage" and leave her house in Chapter Thirty?

5. In Chapter Seventeen, who created a club of sorts which, though not sanctioned by the Emergents, is allowed to exist and draws a great many visitors?

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