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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the surface in Chapter Eleven, Jimmy and several members of his crew work while planning an attack on what?
(a) The On/Off Star.
(b) The Spider Nations.
(c) The Mine.
(d) The Far Treasure.

2. In Chapter Nine, Thomas Nau points out the progress being made on an operation to mine what?
(a) Emeralds.
(b) Oil.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Sapphires.

3. In Chapter Twelve, the Relight is causing all sorts of problems, and what are floating near several of the ships?
(a) Enemy ships.
(b) Ice chunks.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Satellites.

4. What does Sherkaner tell the person he rents a room from he is considering doing in Chapter Four?
(a) Enlisting in the military.
(b) Leaving town.
(c) Commiting suicide.
(d) Finding a job.

5. Where do the inhabitants of Arachna live while the sun is turned off?
(a) In trees.
(b) On webs they wove among the surface.
(c) Inside ice caves.
(d) Underground.

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

7. What group in the novel is domineering and can't imagine establishing relationships based on anything other than enforced slavery?
(a) The Qeng Ho.
(b) The Liberators.
(c) The Emergents.
(d) The Jong Da.

8. Who asks for Ezr's insight in deciding how to deal with the Emergents in Chapter Two?
(a) Pham Trilini.
(b) Captain Park.
(c) Thomas Nau.
(d) Director Ann Reynolt.

9. 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?
(a) Jimmy Diem.
(b) Gonle Fong.
(c) Thomas Nau.
(d) Ezr Vinh.

10. In Chapter Fourteen, Sherkaner explains that he has a plan to do what?
(a) Keep the On/Off Star permanently on.
(b) Steal diamonds.
(c) Keep cities operating during the Dark.
(d) Extend coldsleep durations.

11. Where is Sherkaner headed in Chapter Four?
(a) Air Command.
(b) Lands Command.
(c) Waters Command.
(d) Space Command.

12. Emergent managers induce obsession with a single idea or specialty, which they call what in the novel?
(a) Focus.
(b) Drive.
(c) Distillation.
(d) Sight.

13. What is the name of Qiwi Lisolet's father?
(a) Ali Lin.
(b) Gonle Fong.
(c) Thomas Nau.
(d) Jimmy Diem.

14. What member of the Qeng Ho is a linguistics expert, and her task as one of the focused is to learn all she can about the Spiders?
(a) Qiwi Linsolet.
(b) Trixia Bronsol.
(c) Captain Park.
(d) Victory Smith.

15. 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) Keep them incapacitated.
(b) Blind them.
(c) Make them insane.
(d) Destroy bones and joints.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are the Qeng Ho operating with less technology than usual in Chapter Ten?

3. In Chapter Thirteen, who points out that the two factions now have no choice but to concentrate on joint survival?

4. The time in Chapter Four is shortly before the beginning of the what?

5. In Chapter Ten, Ezr makes a show of demanding obedience to the Emergents' demands for Qeng Ho crewmembers to work doing what in preparation of the mining effort?

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