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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Blind them.
(d) Keep them incapacitated.

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

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

4. Pham Nuwen has the idea to create a race of what in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) Traders.
(b) Fisherman.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Sailors.

5. What junior quartermaster is angry over the lack of technology available in Chapter Ten?
(a) Gonle Fong.
(b) Captain Park.
(c) Jimmy Diem.
(d) Ezr Vinh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ezr learns that the majority of senior crew members who were not killed in the attack are being held in what, in Chapter Nine?

2. Who predicts that the Emergents plan is to force the planet inhabitants into servitude in Chapter One?

3. How old is Qiwi Lin Lisolet when her family and the Qeng Ho arrive at the On/Off Star?

4. From whom does Sherkaner rent a room for the night in Chapter Four?

5. The region of the planet Arachna is provided light and warmth only about how many years out of every cycle of 250 years?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ezr discover about his injury during the attack in Chapter Ten?

2. How is Arachna described in the book? What periods of time are in darkness there and why?

3. What is "mindrot" and how is it used in the attack in Chapters Seven and Eight?

4. What creature do Sherk and Tarant encounter during the attack of the supply station in Chapter Seven?

5. How are Spiders described in "A Deepness in the Sky"? Where do they live?

6. How do the Emergents differ from the Qeng Ho in their exploration of other planets?

7. How are the parks described in Chapters Ten and Eleven?

8. What promotion does Ezr receive in Chapter Nine? Why?

9. What family does Sherkaner learn about from his former teacher in Chapter Four?

10. Whose voice did Ezr hear just before the explosion of the Far Treasure? What does he consider about what was said?

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