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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. In Chapter Twenty-One, Qiwi reveals that she doesn't love who, but does respect him for having helped her through the difficult time after the explosion of the Far Treasure?
(a) Thomas Nau.
(b) Jimmy Diem.
(c) Ezr Vinh.
(d) Captain Park.

2. In Chapter Twenty-Three, Ezr wakes during what year after the Relight?
(a) The fourteenth.
(b) The eighth.
(c) The twenty-first.
(d) The tenth.

3. Pham Trilini sees that having focused people in the Qeng Ho could increase the power of what in Chapter Twenty-Two?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) The Emergents.
(c) The Spiders.
(d) The traders.

4. In Chapter Thirty-Four, Qiwi believes the humans will be revealing themselves to the Spiders within the next how many years?
(a) 12.
(b) 7.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

5. In Chapter Thirty, who learns that those listening to Spider broadcasts have discovered where the children are being held, even though the Spiders themselves are unable to figure it out?
(a) Ezr Vinh.
(b) Trixia Bronsol.
(c) Victory Smith.
(d) Thomas Nau.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ezr hear and know that the situation is serious with at least one dying from the disease in Chapter Twenty-Five?

2. What was the technology called which were used for many purposes, but Pham's initial contact with them included the owner's use of them to read Pham's organ functions and thought processes without his knowledge that it was happening?

3. In Chapter Thirty-Four, Ezr comes off his coldsleep period earlier than he'd expected and goes to whose bar?

4. What refers to a stratagem employed to conceal something or evade an argument?

5. What is the name of the home where Sherkaner's family lives?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are "Captain Lisolet" and "The Man" from the book's Prologue? How are they explained in Chapter Forty-Three?

2. Who are the parents of the young children at the Museum in Chapter Twenty-Eight? What do they reveal?

3. What children arrive at the Royal Museum in Chapters Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight?

4. What beliefs drive the Spiders to reproduce in cycles?

5. Who does Qiwi meet for tea in Chapter Twenty-One? What is discussed?

6. What is revealed by Qiwi and Pham Trilini in Chapter Twenty? How does Ezr respond?

7. What does Victory Smith reveal about Pedure in Chapter Twenty-Five?

8. Why does Thomas Nau propose a toast to the two groups in Chapter Forty-Two?

9. How does Spider society respond to Sherkaner's family?

10. What woman is missing, according to Floria Peres in Chapter Twenty-One? Why?

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