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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Thomas Nau.
(b) Trixia Bronsol.
(c) Ezr Vinh.
(d) Gonle Fong.

2. What vice-podmaster arrives in the garden angry because the park is closed and Qiwi is there, in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) Benny Wen.
(b) Pham Trilini.
(c) Ritsel Brughel.
(d) Victory Smith.

3. Who wants to marry Sherkaner in Chapter Seven?
(a) Captain Park.
(b) Victory Smith.
(c) Floria Peres.
(d) Trixia Bronsol.

4. One of the programs being broadcast which Trixia uses as a source of information about the Spiders in Chapter Eighteen is what?
(a) A children's show about science.
(b) On a government network.
(c) Is in an indecipherable language.
(d) About to go off the air.

5. In Chapter Four, Sherkaner notes a number of pregnant females and males carrying "_____ on their backs."
(a) Tumors.
(b) Packs.
(c) Bumps.
(d) Welts.

6. Who has medical casts on all his left legs when he and Sherkaner meet for the first time?
(a) Gonle Fong.
(b) Thomas Nau.
(c) Captain Park.
(d) Hrunkner Unnerby.

7. 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) Ezr Vinh.
(b) Jimmy Diem.
(c) Thomas Nau.
(d) Gonle Fong.

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

9. The region of the planet Arachna is provided light and warmth only about how many years out of every cycle of 250 years?
(a) 95.
(b) 60.
(c) 50.
(d) 35.

10. Lands Command is where the Spiders conduct their most serious what?
(a) Tortures.
(b) Research projects.
(c) Business meetings.
(d) Worship.

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

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

13. How old was Qiwi Lin Lisolet when her family and the Qeng Ho set out for the On/Off Star?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

14. What redheaded female is a member of the Emergents and is among those who have been focused?
(a) Pham Trilini.
(b) Victory Smith.
(c) Sura Vinh.
(d) Director Ann Reynolt.

15. Who questions Ezr's loyalty to the Qeng Ho in Chapter Ten?
(a) Hrunkner Unnerby.
(b) Jimmy Diem.
(c) Gonle Fong.
(d) Thomas Nau.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Seven, what elderly Qeng Ho is on the captain's bridge?

2. What junior quartermaster is angry over the lack of technology available in Chapter Ten?

3. 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?

4. Emergent managers induce obsession with a single idea or specialty, which they call what in the novel?

5. What is the name of the sun that turns itself off periodically and produces extreme temperatures on the planet Arachna?

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