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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter Eighteen, how many years pass though most of the crew members spend a great deal of time in cold sleep?
2. What member of the crew reports seeing missiles targeting the Qeng Ho flagship, and then reports that the ship is gone in Chapter Seven?
3. In Chapter Fifteen, there's a meeting in which who learns that one of the men focused on a particular project has become so caught up in the technicalities that he is no longer making progress?
4. Who is the head of the Emergents' expedition and is a man whose greed makes him oblivious to everything else?
5. Pham Nuwen has the idea to create a race of what in Chapter Seventeen?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Pham Trilini? How is he described in the first chapters of the book?
2. How are Spiders described in "A Deepness in the Sky"? Where do they live?
3. How is Arachna described in the book? What periods of time are in darkness there and why?
4. Whose voice did Ezr hear just before the explosion of the Far Treasure? What does he consider about what was said?
5. What organic technology is being used by the Spiders in Chapter One?
6. How are the parks described in Chapters Ten and Eleven?
7. How is Spider civilization described by the author in the first chapters of the book?
8. How is the university described in Chapter Fifteen?
9. How do the Emergents differ from the Qeng Ho in their exploration of other planets?
10. Who is Thomas Nau and how did he come to his position in the mission?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the different factions amongst the Spiders. What are the objectives of the Crown and the Tiefstadt?
Essay Topic 2
Describe Floria Peres and the information revealed in Chapter Twenty-One. How does Qiwi know Floria?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the characters of Thomas Nau and Ann Reynolt. How are they different? What objectives do they share?
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