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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. What two youngsters pop up out of the fur on Sherkaner's back when Unnerby visits in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Pedure and Trud.
(b) Brent and Ritsel.
(c) Rhapsa and Hrunkner.
(d) Kira and Luan.

2. What population in the book are traders and tend to search for ways of establishing trading agreements wherever they are?
(a) The Liberators.
(b) The Emergents.
(c) The Jong Da.
(d) The Qeng Ho.

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

4. In Chapter Seven, what elderly Qeng Ho is on the captain's bridge?
(a) Pham Trilini.
(b) Ezr Vinh.
(c) Benny Wen.
(d) Director Ann Reynolt.

5. Who does not allow himself into deep sleep and will therefore age more than any other crew members, as described in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) Pham Trilini.
(b) Hrunkner Unnerby.
(c) Jimmy Diem.
(d) Thomas Nau.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years have lapsed since Sherkaner's arrival at Lands Command in Chapter Six?

2. How long is Arachna's sun off during every 250-year cycle?

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. 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?

5. Where do the inhabitants of Arachna live while the sun is turned off?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the university described in Chapter Fifteen?

2. Who are the Qeng Ho people, and what principle goal do they have as described in Chapter One?

3. What took place on the Far Treasure during the attack by the Emergents? What did Jimmy find?

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

5. How is Ezr injured during the attack in Chapter Seven?

6. Who is Pham Trilini? How is he described in the first chapters of the book?

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

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

9. How is Spider civilization described by the author in the first chapters of the book?

10. Who are Sherkaner's children in Chapter Fifteen?

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