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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Arne Olsndot?
(a) The medic on the cargo shell.
(b) The pilot landing the cargo shell.
(c) The key scientist in the quantum project.
(d) A general with an army opposing Straum.

2. Why can Ja not reveal Scriber's murderer?
(a) He is under compulsion from the murderer.
(b) He is not a talker.
(c) He wants revenge on his own.
(d) He does not know who the murderer is.

3. What does Grondr tell Ravna?
(a) That Pham is not human.
(b) That Pham is human with fake, autonomous memories.
(c) That Pham is half human and half android.
(d) That Pham is half human and half other.

4. How does Ravna wish she could learn more about the Slowness?
(a) By writing a computer program to ferret out the information.
(b) By tapping Pham's memories.
(c) By asking the net's user group.
(d) By accessing classified files.

5. Who emerges from the cargo shell?
(a) A dog.
(b) No one until the atmosphere can be tested.
(c) Two robots.
(d) The Olsndots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should automation not need?

2. How many boats does Tyrathect's group scuttle?

3. What does Johanna notice about her captors?

4. What do the Straumli archeologists call their settlement?

5. What is built faster than anything on Straum?

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