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

3. What is happening to Woodcarver?
(a) She is evolving to a Power.
(b) She is assassinated.
(c) She is strengthened by a Johanna meld.
(d) Her time is running out.

4. What is Steel's cover story?
(a) The gunpowder factory is merely for self defense.
(b) The nursery is producing autistic pups.
(c) The nursery is protecting insane pups.
(d) Disguised Woodcarvers have infiltrated.

5. What did Jefri's parents warn him to avoid?
(a) The rot on the walls.
(b) Falling in with false friends.
(c) The storage compartment on the first deck.
(d) The radioactive engine compartment.

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

7. Where has Johanna been working?
(a) In the field hospital.
(b) In the cannon factory.
(c) In the commissary.
(d) In the computer lab.

8. What must OOB do at the opening of chapter 25?
(a) Be fitted for slow beyond.
(b) Be made capable of light speed.
(c) Put in for repairs.
(d) Be retrofitted with a quantum drive.

9. What does Johanna find upsetting about the Tines' behavior in the wild?
(a) They do not bathe.
(b) They destroy trees for no reason.
(c) They litter.
(d) They kill forest creatures for fun more than necessity.

10. Who must do the talking at Saint Rihndell's Repair Harbor?
(a) The Riders.
(b) Pham.
(c) Jefri.
(d) Ravna.

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

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

13. What is Steel happy about concerning the radio cloaks?
(a) That they are cheap to make.
(b) That they are beautiful as well as functional.
(c) That they are small enough to concel.
(d) That they are uncomfortable.

14. What worries Ravna about Greenstalk and Blueshell?
(a) That they work from a deep compulsion set on them.
(b) That they carry the Blight's blueprint.
(c) That she is mistaken about them.
(d) That they are waiting to act until they find the recorder device on Olndot's cargo ship.

15. Who are the three butterflies?
(a) The Rulers of Sjandra Kei.
(b) The Aprahanti.
(c) The owners of Saint Rihndell's.
(d) Three space hitchhikers.