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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What faction of the Spiders is Sherkaner working for in Chapter Six?
(a) The Royals.
(b) The Tiefstadt.
(c) The Frenzole.
(d) The Crown.

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

3. 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) Captain Park.
(c) Victory Smith.
(d) Trixia Bronsol.

4. Why are the conditions on Arachna difficult for Ezr and his team in Chapter Three?
(a) The planet is radioactive.
(b) The air tanks are low.
(c) The star is on.
(d) The star is off.

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

6. What is the name of the section of the ship where the waste is handled?
(a) Incinerator.
(b) Bactry.
(c) Septicary.
(d) Poop deck.

7. Some of the Qeng Ho people are reportedly being held hostage above a ship called what in Chapter Ten?
(a) Loula May III.
(b) The Star Gazer.
(c) Ticket to Adventure.
(d) The Far Treasure.

8. How many years have lapsed since Sherkaner's arrival at Lands Command in Chapter Six?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

9. 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) Gonle Fong.
(b) Jimmy Diem.
(c) Pham Trilini.
(d) Captain Park.

10. In Chapter Thirteen, who points out that the two factions now have no choice but to concentrate on joint survival?
(a) Ezr Vinh.
(b) Trixia Bronsol.
(c) Victory Smith.
(d) Thomas Nau.

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

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

13. Why are the Qeng Ho operating with less technology than usual in Chapter Ten?
(a) There is no power to run it.
(b) A computer virus corrupted most of it.
(c) The Emergents took it.
(d) They can't get replacement parts.

14. Ezr learns that the majority of senior crew members who were not killed in the attack are being held in what, in Chapter Nine?
(a) Jail cells.
(b) Handcuffs.
(c) Coldsleep.
(d) Contempt of court.

15. What is the name of the sun that turns itself off periodically and produces extreme temperatures on the planet Arachna?
(a) The On/Off Star.
(b) Illuminar.
(c) Instadark.
(d) Spectramatic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Twelve, the Relight is causing all sorts of problems, and what are floating near several of the ships?

2. Who asks for Ezr's insight in deciding how to deal with the Emergents in Chapter Two?

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. What group in the novel is domineering and can't imagine establishing relationships based on anything other than enforced slavery?

5. How did most of the crew of the Qeng Ho expedition spend the voyage?

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