2. What is Steel inspecting?
(a) The factory for producing gunpowder.
(b) The Tine nursery.
(c) The cannon Jefri has constructed.
(d) The construction zone around the ship.

3. What could take 120 days?
(a) The time it may take for Pham to finally integrate all his memories.
(b) The trip to the Tines' world.
(c) The time it may take the Blight to get to the Slow Beyond.
(d) The time it takes for a Tine pack to gestate.

4. What does Pham learn that Jefri's parents have done?
(a) Placed a countermeasure to the Blight on the ship.
(b) Left complex instructions for resurrecting the children in sleep.
(c) Left Jefri with a means of defeating Woodcarver's country.
(d) Escaped.

5. What does Scrupilo warn Woodcarver about Steel?
(a) That Steel is utterly ruthless.
(b) That Steel's weakspot can actually help him against Woodcarver's army.
(c) That Steel will effect mass murder if he wins.
(d) That Steel must have some unknown advantage.

6. What happens when Pham is in godshatter state?
(a) He is irrational.
(b) His mind is entirely taken over and functioning at superhuman speed.
(c) He is intractable.
(d) He is more malleable.

7. Why does Pham power up his weapons?
(a) He senses an ambush.
(b) He accidentally hits the on button.
(c) He is testing them.
(d) He is demonstrating how they work.

8. What prompts Pham to agree to contacting Kjet Svendndot?
(a) Ravna threatens to contact the council.
(b) OOB's ultradrive and automation fail and the workshop catches fire.
(c) Blueshell showing Pham there is no way to manipulate the vortex.
(d) Ravna's threat of suicide.

9. Who prepares to eradicate all humans?
(a) Alliance for Blight Removal.
(b) No one plans to eradicate humans.
(c) Alliance for Defense.
(d) Alliance of plant fossa.

10. Who races to rescue Jefri?
(a) Vendacious.
(b) Johanna.
(c) Bluestalk.
(d) Pham.

11. What do those aboard OOB hope about the Zone storm?
(a) That it will bypass them altogether.
(b) That it will widen the boundaries of the Beyond.
(c) That it will pass in hours.
(d) That it will narrow the boundaries of the Slow Zone.

12. What does Steel order ignited?
(a) The outer pool of oil.
(b) The forest at Woodcarver's flank.
(c) The radio cloaks.
(d) Nothing.

13. When are the 152 ships pursuing Pham due?
(a) In 48 hours.
(b) In ten days.
(c) In three months.
(d) Never.

14. What does Steel project to the masses?
(a) Ravna.
(b) Jefri.
(c) Flenser.
(d) Johanna.

15. With whom has Steel run out of patience?
(a) Tyrathect,
(b) Jefri.
(c) Woodcarver's army.
(d) Vendacious.