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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 Thirty-Four, Ezr sees Qiwi and realizes that she's grown into what?
(a) A vicious monarch.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) A Spider.
(d) An evil matriarch.

2. In Chapter Twenty, who reveals that there are problems stabilizing the rock piles they are trying to mine?
(a) Qiwi.
(b) Rhapsa.
(c) Pham.
(d) Gonle.

3. What was recently discovered in the Kindred region of control in Chapter Forty-One?
(a) Magic rock flour.
(b) A slave-trading post.
(c) Diamond mines.
(d) Computer discs.

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

5. In Chapter Twenty-Nine, who breaks military rules by broadcasting the news of the kidnappings through an unsecure channel?
(a) Brughel.
(b) Trilini.
(c) Unnerby.
(d) Reynolt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What woman is missing, and the explanation is that she died during cold sleep when her container failed in Chapter Twenty-One?

2. Who says if Reynolt becomes a threat, he'll kill her in Chapter Thirty-Three?

3. Who are outside their home playing in snow in the beginning of Chapter Twenty-Seven?

4. Who is invited to see the focused in an effort to put a stop to his "silly" assertions about the focusing process in Chapter Twenty-Two?

5. It is discovered in Chapter Twenty-Nine that the kidnappers were obviously professional military and part of the group known as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Hare do the societal values of the Spiders relate to human society?

2. What does Ritsel reveal about Qiwi in Chapter Twenty-Six?

3. How does Pham contact Ezr in Chapter Twenty-Six? What is Ezr's reaction to Pham?

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

5. What is Pham's reaction when Qiwi is attacked by Ezr in Chapter Twenty-Five?

6. What are Pham's thoughts on the focusing process in Chapter Twenty-Two?

7. How does Victory feel about exposing her children to the public debate in Chapter Twenty-Four?

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

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

10. What empire does Pham hope to build in Chapter Twenty-Two? How?

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